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1. jordand · 1790113347 · focus · HN ↗

   All these years later, Microsoft Access is still alive and kicking, and just three years ago, the 32bit version got Large Address Aware (LAA) support! Technically my very first software job was writing VBA in Microsoft Access for a few weeks and they're probably still running it (there's no drop in replacement for it or cheap way to migrate away)

   1. post-it · 1790113601 · focus · HN ↗

      Access is so good. I can't believe there's no universal equivalent for Linux and Mac. There are dozens of times when I've used a spreadsheet when a file-based database would have been better.

      1. somat · 1790173563 · focus · HN ↗

         There is openoffice base <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.libreoffice.org&#x2F;latest&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;text&#x2F;sdatabase&#x2F;main.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.libreoffice.org&#x2F;latest&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;text&#x2F;sdatabase&#x2F;mai...

         I am not going to claim it is any good, it suffers from the same problem most rapid application toolkits have, the easy stuff is easier, the hard stuff is harder. I was playing around at one point to see if it was worth using as a graphical interface to a postgres database. And... it worked. But in the end I preferred writing web applications. As much as I hate web dev it was better than the RAD jank.

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