I used to teach students MS Access, as well as the entire Office Suite.
At the time I questioned the validity of teaching them to use Access, as I was pretty sure that it was little more than a toy program, and would never be used in the wild by proper businesses.
Then at a mate's wedding one of the guests turned out to be a database admin at a large financial institution. I mentioned my opinions on teaching Access to students, and how pointless it was, and he laughed at me.
His response was that he'd often be asked to build a database to do xyz by management, and his reply would normally be something along the lines of...
"Sure, we can get a secure database, that talks to the other systems and does everything you need, with a web interface in a week or so."
Management would give him disapproving stares.
"Or I could knock you up an Access database in a couple of hours that'll do the job."
At the time I questioned the validity of teaching them to use Access, as I was pretty sure that it was little more than a toy program, and would never be used in the wild by proper businesses.
Then at a mate's wedding one of the guests turned out to be a database admin at a large financial institution. I mentioned my opinions on teaching Access to students, and how pointless it was, and he laughed at me.
His response was that he'd often be asked to build a database to do xyz by management, and his reply would normally be something along the lines of...
"Sure, we can get a secure database, that talks to the other systems and does everything you need, with a web interface in a week or so."
Management would give him disapproving stares.
"Or I could knock you up an Access database in a couple of hours that'll do the job."
Management's response - "Yeah, just do that."