Confusion still reigns.
I suppose your claim that introducing ADPs in Access 2000 can be construed
as a "new" feature for ADPs is valid. You get a point there, and it is
actually kind of clever;
ADPs are in themselves a "new feature". Quite clever indeed. A new feature
by virtue of being new.
Let's say that "better support for UDFs and SQL Server" counts as a "new
feature" and give you that one as well, although I was REALLY hoping you'd
be able to identify an actual "feature",
and not just "better support" for existing functions.
Now we get to some interesting things. "Pivot Tables" were a new ADP
feature in 2003? I won't bet money on it, but I am pretty sure pivot table
support for ADPs was present in 2002.
Maybe you can pull a real citation from a recognized source indicating that
they didn't appear in ADP's until the 2003 version? This is not a big deal,
but the point of this exercise was to
demonstrate your lack of attention to detail, and your inability to be
accurate. On that point, you didn't do so good here, did you?
The last two claimed features are, shall we say, marginal at best. Saying
that "SQL 2005, half dozen other features", and "SQL 2008 support" are
"new features"
in ADP's is really a stretch, is it not? Unless I have been seriously
misled, support for SQL Server is kind of the whole POINT for ADPs! As a
matter of fact, and you may not recall this,
just over a year ago, you, yourself, actually submitted a comment in the
Access Team Blog in which you complained about the lack of full support for
SQL Server 2008 in Access 2007!
That's right, you criticized MS Access development team on this very point.
Your words in that post included the following:
"... How do you guys get away with this?
Do you not communicate between departments?
Do you not have _ANYONE_ that knows anything about SQL Server?
It's time to take ADP seriously--"
Hm, sounds like you were somewhat less than enthusiastic about the way MS
was decreasing its support for ADPs in the Access 2007 version, doesn't it?
If you Bing yourself, you might find the actual Blog post where you said
that. You might also find this statement from the Access Team,
"Access 2007 ADP's will run against SQL Server 2008 but do not support
designing server objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions and
relationships)."
That, sir, is NOT what I think of as a "new feature". And judging from your
comments at the time, I think YOU didn't consider it that way either.
And, finally, rather than another unsubstantiated claim, wouldn't you have
been better served if you had submitted an actual list
of those "new features" for ADPs that first appeared in Access 2007? Just
one would be okay.
You see, the point is that you were called out on an unsubstantiated claim,
and you responded with yet another one. Sorry, that does NOT fly. You can do
better. If you want to be taken
seriously, you must do better.
In any event, I think the point has been made: you can't really offer any
substantial citations to support your claims, and those things you do offer
are largely marginal.
So, let's not waste any more time on this topic.
George
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