Access has many faults but I have always appreciated the easy way for the "average" person to quickly develop a good front end through forms, including easy query design and many simple automated VBA functions. With a little more experience you can program some fairly good applications without being an expert programmer. I have often used it to develop front ends into mixed databased environments (mysql, sql, etc) - especially Microsoft SQL. Love them or hate them, there are many environments running Microsoft Office only. I guess I'm now changing the direction of the thread.
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