On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:34:42PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >> These are all perception problems not real problems. Again, if one >> doesn't "need" flash one can do anything and everything on OpenBSD just >> fine. I am not claiming that OpenBSD should be used under all >> circumstances however making blanket statements that OpenBSD can't >> handle it is dumb. > > Well, I agree up to 99%. I have been looking for a simple solution to > remotely edit SQL database for years. Yes, solutions does exists, Open > Office have db to, but none allow me to process, or paste multiple > records at once for example. > > The only solution I have is to use Access with the layer ODBC on Windows > to do that very quickly And yes Access is strictly use as a GUI > interface if you want to edit content of SQL database on remote servers > and event if that's not as fast as it might be, doing 100K paste records > in that SQL DB remotely works very well and no I can't do that with Open > Office and I still haven't found something to do it that way yet. Open > Office allow me to edit one records at a time. Fine for many cases, but > not for all. Even on a MAC I do sadly use VMWare to run Windows and have > Access there as I have no alternative. Call that sad and it is. But > that's one case. Only one yes, but one case where I have no alternative, > or find one yet and I sure have been looking for years. > > All that said, for everything else yes I totally agree with you. I do > not have any other case. > > Best, > > Daniel >
This sounds like a very solvable problem unless it is a proprietary database.