Mr. Kempf,
I suggest you think before you post. You have, in fact, posted much
egregious misinformation here, and made the same recommendation many times
for situations where it would be inappropriate as a solution, and you have
attracted many who not only disagreed, but provided proof.
Their disagreeing with you is not stalking. Whether your misrepresenting
the facts and making the same recommendation, often in strong, vulgar, and
insulting language, is stalking is a matter for someone else, not me, to
decide.
If it makes you uncomfortable for people to disagree, then you need to be
careful what and how you post -- I think you would be pleasantly surprised
at how few people disagreed with you if you provided helpful posts for the
question that original posters asked, and took into account that this is a
"general questions" newsgroup where many people do not have the option of
changing their software, development tools, or platform. I've worked on
database applications, as a contractor or subcontractor, in many shops that
had corporate standard database software and changing it was simply not a
possibility -- sometimes that was SQL Server (which, BTW, worked very nicely
indeed with Access MDB, Jet, and ODBC) and sometimes were other databases
(which ADPs do not support -- my observation about the work I did with ADPs
was that ADP was not as onerous a burden as some seem to think, but that it
provided little, if any, advantage in the client environment where I was
enhancing the applications). YMMV, of course, and from your extolling the
virtues of ADP, your observations do seem to vary from the observations of
most of us here who have used both MDB and ADP.
Rather few of the posters here, I suspect, are asking questions about the
enterprise-level environment. Also, there are many experienced
enterprise-level environment developers who are effective advocates for the
databases they use, not nearly all of which use Microsoft SQL Server. If
you wish to engage them, microsoft.public.access is not the newsgroup.
Enterprise-level applications aren't normally going to be done in Access,
Jet, or ACCDB but in DotNet, J2EE, Unix and similar environments.
Thus, if your goal is to promote the use of MS SQL Server as an enterprise
development tool, your time might be more efficaciously spent reading and
posting those groups. If, however, your goals are to interfere, irritate,
disrupt, and argue the unarguable, you appear to have chosen a newsgroup
where your views will in fact further your goals.
I think also, you might be pleasantly surprised at the mild tone of
responses to you if you were less strident, vulgar, obscene, and insulting
in your posts.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
message
and I'm not clutting up shit
I'm reccomending- as an experience enterprise level developer / dba--
that the people around here should be disregarded because they are not
partial
it's like going to a suzuki dealership and asking the salesman 'uh
what brand of car should I buy'
Jet is obsolete, it has been for a decade.
Stop trying to justify your STALKING of me by blaming things on me
