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Re:SQLite Is Serverless by m0xte on Sunday January 26, 2020 @11:20AM (#22152814)
It was ok pre-windows 2000. I had access 97 it on 9 workstations on NT with never a problem! Moment office 2000 and windows 2000 came out it went to hell. Moved to SQL Server then. I am not sure what changed.

It was quite frankly the most productive custom business software package I have ever used. Literally would take 10 people a week to do something custom you could do in an afternoon with 1 person in Access. I suspect the same is true now.

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Re:SQLite Is Serverless by JasonFruit on Sunday January 26, 2020 @01:27PM (#22153700)
We had a much heavier multiuser setup on Access 97, and it worked fine. We had the same breakdown as you did, and had to do a registry edit on all users' machines to keep it limping along until we could move to SQL Server, which was the right thing to do anyway.
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Re:SQLite Is Serverless by m0xte on Sunday January 26, 2020 @05:05PM (#22155116)
Interesting. Nice to know it wasn't just me. There was no one to talk to about it back then so you had to think on your toes.

SQL Server was a crap load easier to back up reliably

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