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Ask HN: Has anyone ever considered "MS Access a viable option"?

• gamegoblin 12y ago
  I freelanced once for the local VA hospital and they sure tried!
• staz 12y ago
  "Access, why would we need that? We already have a shared folder with all our Excel sheets"
  • Shish2k 12y ago
    This is true, and several of the world's biggest companies run that way. Several-hundred-megabyte spreadsheets, with VBA interfaces copy & pasted between them; can't change it because the unknown cost of breaking it is potentially greater than the known cost of hiring an entire department of people to do one database server's job :(