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Re: Automating Vertical File Indexes
Access will dance and sing if you learn how to utilize it properly.
However, I too have experienced the frustration of wanting to put parts of
our agency-wide database (written in Access 97) out for intranet and/or
internet searching. I'm told by OUR systems people that I must let them
translate to Oracle, which means never having truly current information out
there. So I can't see any reason to do it at all, since outdated
information on which people rely is (IMO) the internet's worst drawback.
Access gives me a powerful database that I can tweak at will, to meet my
staff's needs. Therefore, I think it's wonderful. But if one of your
absolute requirements is on-line searching via an internet portal, I can't
recommend it. That is what it will NOT do, in my experience.
Nina M. Osier, Director
Division of Records Management Services
Maine State Archives
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