Kind of what Crystal is doing with Ruby-like syntax but runs "fast as C. This has been a huge success. Which one can do a straight up Open with one click on an. MSDB access database with no conversions? None I do not believe, but that does not mean you cannot migrate the data.
Beyond that, what you ask for was not the point of this article, and is not the main goal of either of these alternatives either. I've been using the very expensive FileMaker Pro database for my personal databases for a long time. My needs are pretty simple, but FM has a few features that don't seem to be available at least not in any simple or obvious way with other database packages. Specifically, these features are: 1: Text fields that don't have a length limit.
Every text field in FM allows arbitrary amounts of text, including basic formatting. And it is stored efficiently - I'm not wasting a maximum-size field for every row in order to have this capability.
Non-numeric context following the digits is accepted and stored, but is not used for sorting or searching. I can declare any field to accept multiple values. On the GUI form, I specify the maximum number of values to display, but internally there doesn't seem to be a limit.
When searching, a value matching any of a field's values will match the field. I can paste images into fields. I think most databases support this today, but it is trivially simple with FileMaker. The last time I looked at database packages several years ago , no other product not even Access supported Ironically, 1 was available in the 80's using Clipper a compiler for dBase programs using its "memo" type fields.
The open source world really lacks an environment for rapid application developement like access. While the database part of access can be substituted by many os dbs, I do not know any tool neither libreoffice base that allows to build with almost no code forms, queries and reports.
Possibly with html. Do you know any? That is the power of msaccess that cannot find any alternative. Build simple business applications and keep track of your data with these worthy open source alternatives. Image credits :. Get the highlights in your inbox every week. If that sounds like you, here are four open source database tools for your consideration. When Microsoft Access was introduced, it pioneered the database app builder market. It fast became the de-facto standard worldwide.
An online version was briefly launched, but it was a half-hearted effort and was soon discarded with Microsoft announced they would be retiring Access Online. That is probably why the number of Google searches for Microsoft Access has shown a dramatic decrease, year on year. Highlighted features:. QuickBase is one of the leaders in the low-code application building platform market.
Among other specific features, it allows users to use publishing tools to create custom formats to present data. Zoho is a tech juggernaut offering almost any application ever made. That decision is being made for me, so I'm left to come up with alternatives.
You have given me several good ideas. Thanks everyone. I also agree with your comments about all the negativity and asking for more details on what it is you want. My company uses Access very heavily, with a fairly complex Access front end that was built in house over many years, and we'd like to move away from it towards a more cloud based front end. We already us SQL Server as the back end, so enabling users to have more flexibility and the ability to us a front end that doesn't require them to remotely connected to their work computers would be helpful.
We have a number of SQL Databases that we connect to and use, trying to maintain all those with an acceptable response time over a VPN via Access proved to be less than idea. As someone else mentioned we are looking at PowerApps and I just some time looking at the Microsoft Build conference to see what the have going on there, which is a lot.
But as I mentioned and maybe is your case too, we have a fairly complex front end, to have to rewrite it from scratch would be time intensive to say the least. Some way to convert it would be ideal. At least then we could have something up and running in less time. I appreciated every response immensely. I am constantly perplexed at how often businesses are unsatisfied with Access. I think it's a combination of it being a Microsoft app, that its VBA based, and that it has limitations that invites the criticality.
If something this magical has limitations it just creates suspicions for some reason. I have decided to keep the many Access front ends we have which took over 10 years to develop and move to SQL Server backend. Because they are linked tables its no different to the user as well as the forms. No two businesses are the same. Just be patient. Microsoft wants all businesses to succeed and they make incredible things. Upgrading our network infrastructure fixed all of our corrupt Access files, so you may want to get that checked out.
I hope you find something that works for you. As an Access developer from it's first version, I have to agree. Although I was initially luke-warm on PowerApps at the time they were being introduced, I had just co-authored a book on Access Web Apps for Access , alas. However, I was recently induced to take another look at the current state of PowerApp development. I've only done two such PA apps so far, but I'm suitably impressed. First, you must have an Office account which includes PA.
I am not an expert on that, though, so I'll leave it at a general comment. SharePoint lists are not and therefore incur no additional cost. I recently saw that MS plans a price drop soon, though. Licensing issues are always opaque with MS I'm afraid. PowerApps has a limit on the number of records that can be retrieved from a data source, depending on which data source and whether the function that retrieves them can be delegated sent for processing on the server side, somewhat analogous to a passthru query, in a way.
I'm going to make a hash of delegation, so again, a general comment. The default limit is records, either in total in some situations, or in iterative calls to the data source in others.
It can be increased to records. With SQL Server, that's more significant. Make sure you investigate this before committing. I was able to finesse this by limiting the records I select to the most recent x days, say 30 or That way I can see current data, but not historical data. For a data entry operation in a mobile app, that's generally adequate. I want to add new exercise sessions while at the gym, for example, and I really don't need to see any sessions from two years ago on the smart phone; I have an Access FE for that when I get home.
That's kind of a good illustration, as a matter of fact, of how I myself see their role. An extension for remote situations where limited processes are needed, but full data history isn't critical. I can understand your frustration!
I also have developed with MS Access since version 1. The only other issue to watch going forward is if you have lots of VBA code, you will need to modify it for bit Access which MS is pushing harder now. For any new front end development, use bit as it eventually will be all that is offered vs. Best of luck! First, we all have been there at one time or another. Frustration is part of the environment, I suppose. And for my part, I should have been less critical.
I apologize. That's a common response, I'm afraid, all too common. It reflects a couple of problems, really. First, Access is very easy to use, and that means a lot of less than professionally developed Access "databases" are created.
That can create the impression the problem is with Access, when the reality is that the problem was lack of training and experience.
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