You should think carefully about using Access.

While a very powerful tool, it's a very sophisticated relational database, and you might find you spend more time programming it than actually working with trainees.

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Originally posted by Kimmie:
We do utilize Peoplesoft. If it tracks training documents or anything related to training, I don't know. Because I do not have access to Peoplesoft. I'm sure it does. I used with my last employer, Lowe's. You would think I would have it access now, considering that I mentioned it to my boss, but I guess he would rather me wreck my brains in MS Access than to give me that access.

Kimmie, posting well after the original conversation, but my thought was .. it's all in how you present it to your boss. Peoplesoft definitely has a training module, and if your company is using Peoplesoft now, your manager should be sold on the fact that you would be utilizing a tool that (1) has already been paid for (NO RAMP UP TIME WHILE YOU LEARN/DEVELOP THE NEW TOOL), (2) could tie into the rest of your corporate HR info (NO DATA ENTRY!), and (3) because it's tied in, can better help you track and report on who's attending training, is it helping retention (the person who quit last week didn't get the training the needed or did they attend every training offered to better their marketability). Most managers I've worked with in the past would rather utilize software that's already been purchased and is part of the IT Dept.'s supported programs than to have their people spend time and money learning a new software, developing their own in-house application that isn't supported by in-house IT. That would mean when you leave, so does the knowledge and all the usefullness of all the data you've entered.

Hope that helps!

Kirk - the suggestion to use Access comes with the assumption that there would be at least one database developer involved who actually knows how to design, build and maintain a good database.