James Ausmus wrote: >On 12/19/05, capsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Is there any program for makeing data bases as fast as ms access >>(works fast, small) and free as openbase? >> >> > >I haven't used it much, just looked at it a time or two, but Rekall >aims to be a MS Access work-alike replacement tool - it runs on top of >a MySQL or Postgresql database - it just provides the "pretty" UI >elements such as forms, reports, visually-designed queries, etc. > > You can also use Open Office Base, which is the data basing component of Open Office. I have it set up with an ODBC connection to a MySQL database (because Open Office didn't have a database component until recently). You can use it to create forms (for example, to create a list box from which to select values for certain fields) and edit the database from within the form. Any changes are saved in Open Office as well as back to the MySQL database.
Gentoo has a MySQL startup guide if you have never used it: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-howto.xml To set up the ODBC connection (note that this document was written prior to Base being part of Open Office, but the methodology for setting up the ODBC connection still applies - except that in Gentoo the odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini are in /etc/unixODBC/ and the correct file name for the library is /usr/libmyodbc3.so): http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL9.pdf Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
