Jet vs. SQL -- an amazing conversation

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Rebecca Riordan

I had an amazing conversation with a Microsoft-y last week, and I had to
share the giggle...

I made the statement I've made many times before (probably too many times
<eg>): killing Jet was a terrible mistake. When my friend called me on it,
and demanded justification. I stated to repeat all the standard
arguments -- overkill, maintenance, MSDE is a high-maintenance engine with
no maintenance tool, yada yada.

His response? "We've fixed that." What do you mean you fixed that? "It's
fixed in the release after next."

Now, personally, I find this hilarious -- they killed Jet _years_ ago, but
it's not a problem, because it will be fixed in a couple years. Understand,
this guy's a good friend of mine, and it only took about ten minutes to
explain the error of his ways. We both wound up laughing. But
sheesh...what a culture. Now I remember why I quit.

--
Rebecca Riordan, MVP

Designing Relational Database Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming Step by Step
Microsoft ADO.NET Step by Step

http://www.microsoft.com/mspress

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused...
 
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Simon Harvey

Rebecca,

What does Access use now if its not jet? Is it still jet but not a new
version - just with service packs and stuff added on?

Also, if you dont mind me asking, how do you become an MVP?

Thanks :)
Simon
 
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chas

Hi Rebecca,

huh....? If JET was killed off years ago what have we been
using all this time? AFAIK JET will not be killed off
(there are too many legacy apps and too much knowledge and
experience invested in it), I just don't think MS are
going to invest in developing it any further. With the
change in the file format of Acc2000 onwards we now have
the choice of using either JET or SQL Server and
(possibly? other database engines in the future.

just my two pence worth.....;-)

chas
 
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Rick Brandt

chas said:
Hi Rebecca,

huh....? If JET was killed off years ago what have we been
using all this time? AFAIK JET will not be killed off
(there are too many legacy apps and too much knowledge and
experience invested in it), I just don't think MS are
going to invest in developing it any further. With the
change in the file format of Acc2000 onwards we now have
the choice of using either JET or SQL Server and
(possibly? other database engines in the future.
Click to expand...

You've always had that choice. It did not begin with Access 2000.
 
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Lance

Well, its a shame that MS can't support two database
engines. There is a lot of enhancements they could make
to the Jet engine but I think it's too soon to say killing
Jet was a terrible mistake. For that we will have to wait
and see how everything plays out in the next few versions
of Access.

Lance

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