Microsoft Access
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5recommend
2warn against
Nov 26, 2025first mention
Sep 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Access is so good.”
“I remember watching one person with Access set up dashboards that worked 1000x better than all of the dozen SAAS tools”
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“Maybe get back to what we used to have with apps like HyperCard, FileMaker and Microsoft Access”
“Lack of something as accessible and useful as Access is a major hole.”
“it was a work of art more effective than anything I could’ve ever come up with”
Caveats and dissent
“I visited a piano store once that was running everything off MS Access.”
“so I don't have to use such a bad GUI”
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All comments 17
“Access is so good.”
“I remember watching one person with Access set up dashboards that worked 1000x better than all of the dozen SAAS tools”
“Access not dBase.”
“I visited a piano store once that was running everything off MS Access.”
Resurrect this kind of language is one of my goals (https://tablam.org) but of course with different takes. I think the main gist: you work not as app developer but as db developer, is something that is missing in some partial attempt like access and such. BTW: Wanna join me or help?
“Microsoft Access 2.0 had filters to import and export data from and to DBF files.”
“We used it at Altitude Software, as one of the possible database backends for our platform”
“In 25 years I have never seen anyone use Microsoft Access in earnest.”
“Maybe get back to what we used to have with apps like HyperCard, FileMaker and Microsoft Access”
“Microsoft Access was strictly file based.”
“so I don't have to use such a bad GUI”
“MS Access makes for incredibly powerful and incredibly hard to maintain "shadow IT"”
“stored comments in an MS Access database”
“Access likely had higher market share but of a much smaller market.”
“Lack of something as accessible and useful as Access is a major hole.”
“Access is hacky, but it works!”
“it was a work of art more effective than anything I could’ve ever come up with”