MS Access 2007 to Support Multi-Valued Data Types

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:58 pm

MS Access 2007 is to support multi-valued data types!

"... if you are an application developer, the finer points of relational
database theory often sound like just so much academic nonsense. If a
new feature makes life easier, who cares if it happens to break some
arbitrary rule written over 20 years ago? "

Hahaha "new feature"!

Check out the article here
(Cross-posted from U2UG forum: thanks to Mike Henderson of NZ Defence for unearthing this gem)

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:19 pm

Nice closing quote from the article:

So, my clear and certain advice to developers is not to use multi-valued fields. They have nothing to offer us except potential pain.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:24 pm

I responded to the author at The Register explaining gently why he is wrong.