Microsoft Access
is not an "industry standard." It is a pile of wank used in professions where "get Dave to do it - he saw a computer once" is the battle cry of the middle manager.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:31, 4 replies)

pays the bills

(waxdart hello., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:42, closed)

Agreed.
It's only used because it's bundled in Office and some managers realise that Excel is not a database application.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:56, closed)

I use excel and pivot tables
It does me
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 20:46, closed)

The annoying thing is, Access is basically DBase V with a really shit front end nailed on to it, as far as I can tell. Hate it, hate it, hate it.
(redexile, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 16:30, closed)