[TriLUG] Database Software

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Thu Apr 11 11:20:21 EDT 2013


Which is all fine, but the OP's request was basically, "I want to do what 
I've been doing in Approach without having to learn any new technology or 
rewriting all my code."

William Sutton

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Jeremy Davis wrote:

> I use MS Access heavily at work (it is my only option) and I have developed
> some fairly extensive solutions with it. I have found that LibreOffice Base
> actually has as much capability, it just takes a little time to figure the
> differences. Some of the databases I developed for work, I recreated in
> Base at home just to see if it could be done. Base works really well! The
> GIMP graphics program is handy for making highly polished buttons etc...
> You can make a Base interface look extremely awesome, which may help win
> over those doubtful folks who fear stepping outside of the Windows world. I
> have not found anything Access does that Base can't do as well or better.
> On Apr 11, 2013 10:59 AM, "John Vaughters" <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you already thrown out Libre Office BASE?
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
>> To: trilug at trilug.org
>> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Database Software
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>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
>> Jack Hill <jackhill at jackhill.us> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know anything about Approach, but for a "Desktop" database
>>> application, I have heard good things about Kexi
>>> <http://www.calligra.org/kexi/>. It might have more bloat than the
>>> sqlite wrappers.
>>
>> kexi sounds great, but I'm judiciously keeping all KDE libraries off my
>> computers. Anyone know of something similar not depending on KDE
>> libraries?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> SteveT
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