Re: Does Access Break?

Hello Earl,

I do this all the time! I specialize in adding new functionality to existing
databases, making modifications to existing databases and fixing problems in
existing databases.

PC Datasheet
Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word
Applications
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"Earl Anderson" <isobadd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Our company has been acquired by another company and we are going thru the
integration process. One of the "Day 1" items is settling on a
departmental database used to track departmental functions. A former
employee built our Access application, however he is now long gone.
During the 2 years he's been gone, the application has worked just fine
with no problems. The new acquiring company's department has a like
application (not sure if Access or some other db format) with much less
functionality, however they want to keep their own and not use ours,
citing that theirs is supported by their IT Department while ours is not
and since the developer is no longer with our company, there is no one who
could repair it should something happen to it. (Although MS Office Pro is
a company standard, our company has no one in IT that is fluent in VBA).

Two (2) questions please. First, has it been your experience as
developers that once you build something in Access and it has been tested
and used extensively by the client over a period of years that you are
called back to fix something that "broke"? Second, if something did
"break" in the programming, is it extremely difficult to read another
developer's programming to determine what he did and how he did it, so
that a problem could be diagnosed and repaired by a new and different
developer/programmer?

Thx...
Earl Anderson



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