it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    All those stories are 100% true. And when someone did end up hosting an Oracle based SQL database, they’d pull from it in Access and it’d take several hours for one query. My R code did the same in about 10 seconds.

    It’s not good software. Lol

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      Access has its uses, need a database to catalog your (parents) physical photo albums, or perhaps you want to have a database for recipies at home to make them easier to find, then in those cases Access should be fine if you are willing to maintain it.