Worst technology I've ever worked with?

Microsoft-FUCKING-Access

The error riddled, varchar frenzy, disgusting ui, os and architecture dependent pieces of shit, powered by the cherry on top: fucking VBA, that are applications developed with this monstrosity have kept me awake trying to understand why on earth would anyone that is not dying of cancer already would use such thing to try to build anything.

I had to deal with load of Access applications when I first started at my current company. Whats left now are mainly legacy systems, I killed them one by one and whatever's left will suffer the same punishment.

If you develop in Access you're my enemy and I will destroy you.

MS Access was never meant for enterprise level work. My first ever production program was made using Access, because I was still in high school and couldn't do anything better (I had no access to internet back then).

Access is actually amazing because it lets total newbs like young me, develop something that actually works, and drastically reduces human errors and speed of work. Something that's used successfully until this day without being touched, even though the OS has migrated from Windows 98, to XP, to 7, to 10, and same with MS Office.

@apisarenco I disagree, dramatically. This is the all time excuse of people to justify using Access. If its so cool to get people started on software/database development then why oh fucking why is not being taught at any school in the galaxy? Why are kids learning Scratch? BECAUSE ACCESS SUCKS DICK!
Today its even easier to install SQL Server Express (FREE), Visual Studio Community (FREE) and read C# for dummies... Develop an ntier application (not a great quality one) for desktop and voila, no matter how much your program sucks it still beats the shit out of any Access program, including yours.

@Nelson "why oh fucking why is not being taught at any school in the galaxy?" - ummm, it actually is.

"Why are kids learning Scratch?" - and can Scratch be used in practice in an office? No. it cannot. And very, very few pupils study Scratch.

"BECAUSE ACCESS SUCKS DICK!" - your non-evidence based opinion is noted.

"Today its even easier to install SQL Server Express (FREE), Visual Studio Community (FREE) and read C# for dummies" - it is much, MUCH harder to code a UI in C# than it is a simple CRUD application with lookup features in Access. It takes a lot more time. In Access, code is needed only in a few places, and very little code. In a C# windows forms application, you need to write mostly code.

But you've already shown that the learning curve is much steeper in your proposal, and people will just continue making complete and utter shit in Excel and Word instead, with tons of manual work and errors. All because you don't like Access.

@apisarenco No.

@Nelson ok. I wish you a good insightful future where you won't let your misfortunes judge the virtues of certain products.
But for now, I leave you with a ++ on your "No".

"Democratic People Party" is as democratic and people-centered, just like "MS Access" is about assessing data.