Development Time?

[Drak]

It's a broad question. But how long (just a ballpark number) to create a medium/large database? A good example would be the Northwind example database.


That contains a customer database, list of orders, tracks employee's hours/miles/expenses, etc.
Along with "under-the-hood" VBA stuff, such as error logging, user/password system, automating emails.

I'm asking to manly base off my own experience, something like this took me around a month.
But I'm curious what the dev time would be for somebody more experienced.

[June7]

A month of what - 8 hrs a day 5 days a week? I have developed a number of projects that took from couple of weeks to 4 years. The 4-year project was to replace a 20-year old dBase DOS program. Those 4 years included learning Access and VBA on-the-job, with a few months of mentoring from a consultant. The 4th year was testing side-by-side with the existing app.

[Drak]

A month of what - 8 hrs a day 5 days a week? I have developed a number of projects that took from couple of weeks to 4 years. The 4-year project was to replace a 20-year old dBase DOS program. Those 4 years included learning Access and VBA on-the-job, with a few months of mentoring from a consultant. The 4th year was testing side-by-side with the existing app.

Yes. 8 Hours a day 5 days a week. It's actually a replacement for the old dos version of Paradox.