True. I should have qualified the statement (that Microsoft Access is not a multi-user database) by filling in some details.

My experience with Access -- or, more accurately, accessing the underlying JET engine through ODBC -- is that it didn't stand up under (simulated) heavy load, and that we could fairly reliably corrupt the repository. Under lighter load, things would seem fine for quite a while, then WHAM! Under single-user load, no problem at all. We suspected a concurrency problem, but with no source to read or debug, we were left at the "we suspect" level. Plus, conventional wisdom at the time was also that Access/JET was not suited for multi-user applications.

This was on NT4.0 in the SP5 timeframe. Something may have changed in the meantime to fix that (there have been at least two service packs, SP6 and SP6a) in the meantime, plus Win2K (and one? service pack there) and XP. I since moved on to relyling on heavier-duty RDMBSs, and haven't reevaluated Access. Nor do I plan to.

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