Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Access
We use Microsoft Access in some of our projects, and for educational purposes mainly. The graphical interface seems to help students understand RDBMS concepts a bit easier, and also allows quick database design. This is a nice tool for smaller projects and bigger products as well - being able to download it from the cloud and part of Office 365 makes it an excellent candidate for "first database".
- Graphical interface makes design easier.
- Good introduction for database design concepts.
- GUI allows less room for errors.
- Concurrent users accessing a database makes it really slow.
- Requires Windows, and Office.
- Lot of our training required Access as part of our toolkit for teaching, where companies use Windows.
- We were able to do courses for non-programmers with it about databases.
Being a similar "Windows application" it's easier to start to use as part of Office. Also, the GUI capabilities are much more advanced than other high-performance databases.
Do you think Microsoft Access delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Access's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Access live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Microsoft Access go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Access again?
Yes