I was never asked to develop a database. However, I would be very interested to know how to use Access so if there is someone in the class who is comfortable with it and willing to teach me, I am willing to learn. I believe that knowledge is power so that no one will come and talk about something I do not understand. I feel as an MBA student I have to present myself differently from the average Jon Doe. Saying that, we have to learn something , or enough, about everything available so that at least we will not feel weird is a geek is talking about it.
Databases are very important, especially for marketing purposes.
I used them a lot, just never constructed one via Access. Again, this is something I will be very interested in learning more about. With databases whether it be Access, Oracle, or some other database program, I haven't had to use one of these software packages in my professional career, so it would kind of hard for me to comment on something in which I haven't used. I did take a database course about 10 or 11 years ago. I do remember that there are different things in which one can use with a software package like Access since databases can be very useful.