Megaflex Instrument forms Application - Jun 11, 2008
Reviewer: John Schott
The Megaflex database system is a useful tool for specifying, tracking, calibrating, and maintaining instrumentation. Unfortunately, the author chose Paradox as the database platform upon which to build his application. Had he used FoxPro (dBase compatible) or Access the final product would have been much better. There are issues including the system allowing two records with identical key field values to exist. Strange and unexpected substitutions of data in fields can occur. The ability of the system to handle large input from other databases is compromised and making global changes to a set of identical instruments is impossible. The only redeeming feature is that it is the only package available. One might be better off using the plain forms in Excel and develop your own application. This would miss a lot of valuable features, but would be much more stable and flexible.