[OiNutter]

Reminds me of the stock update system for one of our major clients at my first job. The predecessor of myself and my colleague had thought it a brilliant idea to build a clothing ecommerce site, with a complete list of all stock going back to the year dot with ASP and Access (that's Classic ASP, not .NET). Towards the end the stock update would take pretty much an entire afternoon to run.

Eventually we got the approval to change to MySQL for the database. When they ran the first stock update with the new version they rang us up to check it had worked because it was near instantaneous.

The moral of the story: Access is BAD! VERY BAD!