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The cloud based, online alternatives to MS Access simply cannot offer the same depth of functionality and flexibility that the desktop application does. Well, the replacement for Microsoft Access will be Microsoft Access After that I imagine something like Microsoft Access The current version of Microsoft Access, Version goes end of life in , and our expectation is that the next version will be supported until at least Yes and no. Microsoft pulled their attempts at making an online version of Access i.
Webapps or using SharePoint, but thousands of businesses are hosting their desktop-based Access databases in the cloud using hosted remote desktop services aka Desktop as a Service.
These services enable you to run your Access database in the cloud without any recoding, and generally work out cheaper than the online Access alternatives.
So, yes, Microsoft Access can be used online. Many businesses host Access in the cloud using our remote desktop services platform. Access is most definitely relevant and will continue to be so for a long while yet. Access is a very sophisticated, highly functional and infinitely customisable application that is designed to run on a Windows desktops.
Anyone who compares desktop applications with web-based ones will know how feature rich desktop apps are compared with so called cloud apps. However, Access can also be run in the cloud by using cloud hosted desktops. Running Microsoft Access in the cloud using hosted desktops also enables non-windows users to run Access using their Mac, iPad or Android tablets, even Google Chromebooks. Sure, there are other desktop database applications and there are other cloud based or web based alternatives to Microsoft Access.
However, none of these come close to providing the all-round package that is simple to develop yet incredibly sophisticated. This is a codeless website development tool with the ability to create data forms for data entry and query. The company offers a hosting service as well. You can design a site or a page and host it on the Bubble servers, setting up new databases or linking back to your existing databases. This is a paid service but there is a free version.
If you were depressed about the decline of Microsoft Access, then hopefully, this review of the status of the package and alternatives to it has given you some cheer. The way forward out of your Access depression is to try out some other database systems.
One problem you will face is migrating your data out of the. Therefore, Access users will need to look at alternative systems to run their desktop databases, such as LibreOffice Base, Zoho Creator, or Bubble.
Since the creation of SQL in the early s, several proprietary adaptations have been formulated. Microsoft Access uses a version of SQL that is very close to the original, definitive language.
Visual Basic went through a transformation in when it was integrated into the. NET framework. For a while, it was called Visual Basic. NET or VB. NET but now has gone back to the Visual Basic name. Visual Basic is still supported by Microsoft and is still being developed. The latest version is Visual Basic , which is also referred to as VB This is sold as part of the Visual Studio package. This is not included in G-Suite.
The current status is that Microsoft is fully committed to continuing development and support of Microsoft Access. It is imperative that MS Access is supported for Microsoft NET6 on VS, as the demand for such developers is growing day by day and we will be able to use Access skill for next 10 years. The article completely ignores the online support angle. The level of crowd-sourced support is just astounding. You Google the problem and get nothing. Oh, and the fact that Access has changed so little over the years?
It means that the subroutine you find online from will work today. Same with the instructional videos. Makes you realise in the end these new features are just not worth spending the time learning. Show me any other product out there where you can develop complex DB application from analysis to deployment in less 15 minutes. I do hate it, but will miss it if Microsoft nix it. I am sometimes amazed that some of these databases even work when I see how badly the tables are designed, and the associated VBA, queries etc.
Access is unique, because it is a database that comes with a full set of tools to build a functional application. Or you could call it an application builder, that comes with a database! There are many of these legacy applications running well under current versions of Windows and many clients who would be lost without them.
They have a very large customer base that depends on it. One thing about Access that many developers love: it has a small footprint and is highly efficient.
New highly specialized applications can be developed quickly and relatively cheaply. The downside with Access is security, but when it is deployed on a network, network security takes over and these applications run securely.
Access rocks. The ribbon sucks. At work I use Access desktop version to store and combine data from different sources f. To me, storing data in Excel is like summoning the evil one. MS query in Excel is painfully slow and data integrity… number stored as text, oh my! Access does all that, the query builder is terrific, and you can build and automate reports in no time.
You have no idea how much time I save with reporting only. Btw, try sharing data with an external company via Sharepoint, Teams, Onedrive if your global sysadmin acts like Mordac, the preventor of information services.
Mail an Access report or exported query and everybody is happy. Hello there! One thing Assess in not that good is a security. And this is not discussed in length or not even mentioned. Security this days is a paramount and no matter how much Access is good as a tool, it is not safe for anything more than a home usage.
Yes, the SQL Server can be used, but than it is not a standalone database, and multiple licenses are needed. Still, one can connect and dump the data which is exactly against the security principles. So, decisions, decision, is Access for domestic usage or corporate? I am getting daily questions on how to move Access to the Web. The interest is huge. I contributed to the invention of Information Engineering. I have experience. I started using Access version 1 in and was impressed by how easy it was to use.
I developed the SQL Server back-ends, wrote the stored procedures, etc. You can develop a simple, single-user app, using wizards, to do something useful. You can also develop slightly more complex, multi-user systems by splitting the Access database into two: back-end and front-end. This is where simple VBA usually comes in. Someone in England developed a successful Access version 2 system with simultaneous users.
You can make it efficient. SQL Server. I was called in to look at a VB6 system with an Access database. Response time going from tab to tab on the main data entry form was around 10 minutes. The network was heavily overloaded. Government department with no money to spend on IT. But the problem was the way that the database was used to add a new record.
The SQL statement to open the new record read every record in the contact table, over , of them. That reads every contact into the front-end. That got the response time down from 10 minutes to 5 seconds. One line of code. I changed a few other things and eventually got the response time to around 1 second. There are idiots everywhere. You can do some interesting things with VBA. I did a fingerprint booking system for a police department a few years ago.
The system popped up multiple booking forms so that an operator could see all the machine and ink available spots for a location on one screen, and could enter the new appointment on any of them. That required the booking form to be an object that could be replicated as many times as needed across a screen. Sort of. Access fits a niche. That niche to me is a rapid development solution. Hey want to proto type a phone app idea for a qucik brainstorm with a developer?
Need a certain task done or noted, need some form of database type information stored, sorted or printed? It is basically a digital swiss army knife. Add tot he fact that you can build a front end for a SQL Backend or other and you unleash any more power.
Myself I use Filemaker Pro Advanced and Powershell for my rapid development or tool generation needs but when it comes to small to medium businesses Access is the easiest to purchase, license, and deploy using E3 license and since it is Microsoft, updates, support, and learning curve of ease of use is much easier to adopt than other third party options. Microsoft knows this. Businesses know this. Microsoft has such a stronghold on this niche that few companies choose to compete head to head.
Access is here for a long time. Now changes they may make? I could see Microsoft adopting more of a C than VB path down the road. I could see Access gaining more updated tools to deal with larger file sizes when using 64bit, better graphics storage, stability improvements, speed improvements in the engine, and maybe some GUI design overhauls to modernize created solutions.
But a coffin nail? Not for long way down the road. It is too ingrained into too many businesses to let it die on the vine.
Sadly, your article is flawed and biased. Microsoft deprecated Web Databases from Access, one of its components.
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