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Next up: Microsoft Access plugged on top of an Oracle database!

So you get super-serious-business db with the frontend-widgets even Office-users can click together! Or think they can. They all clicked together some sort of very simple Access at one point and it looked so "great" and then it seems to be a very tempting and "logical" step to make it "legit" serious-business by swapping out the Access data backend for a real database - so you get all the serious business AND all the super great, easy frontend!

Once you go down that road, you find yourself in a very special hell.

From all my years in IT I can tell you, there is no amount of money and almost no task that wasn't at one point (against all odds) forced into an Excel file somewhere in the world. It is really ridiculous how far people will bend over to make things into an Excel file.