VB6 was the only “low code / no code” tool that actually delivered on its promise.
Bill Gates demoing it from 32-years ago.
Bill Gates demoing it from 32-years ago.
However this is so long ago I have forgotten the details.
Access was probably simpler for a simple database entry and query.
However Access"s database was a disaster constantly getting corrupted etc. However I would note I was in companies that had access to full databases like Sybase and Oracle and as we had site licenses they were effectively free for each project. We often took a users Access project and made it maintainable in VB6.
VB6 was a programming language environment, Access was a client for the Jet DB engine. You could technically connect to more than just Jet DB's but that's primarily what it was for.
Visual Basic did have some database support but the actual database functionality/engine relied on external engines instead of being part of the runtime itself and it wasn't really part of the language. Being able to define a data type that is transparently mapped to a table's columns in a database and variables being cursors in a database would help with a bunch of smaller scale applications.
Basically something that mixed VB and Access. Ssadly that'd mean one would cannibalize the other's sales so it was never done.
Even the "plan A" button code doesn't show the only interesting part of the code - how the UI is actually updated in response to the changed underlying data.
Even non programmers can come up with some crazy stuff in Excel that just works, that will just run on any machine in their company.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-started-with-...