On 30 May 2012 at 7:49, Fernando Cassia wrote: Send reply
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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Niall Martin
<[email protected]>wrote:
I have experimented with Open Office Base, but found it difficult
to
find my way
into its facilities and vocabulary, to work out what it can do for
me.
Here is a tutorial, FWIW.
http://inpics.net/base.html
By the way, I remember Lotus Approach vaguely (under OS/2)... I think
its database design screens were simpler.
FC
Niall Martin wrote:
Looks interesting. I shall investigate. Thanks
Niall Martin
Phone 0131 4678468
Please reply to: niall<at>rndmartin.cix.co.uk
I have been experimenting Base before if first
appeared in OOo 2.0 (I even experimented with Base using
developer snapshots while OOo 2.o was being developed. But I
don't understand what the difficulties are especially when
you refer to vocabulary and facilities. I had also created
dBase databases back in the OOo 1.x.x period when that was
the only option. I had no problems moving to Base from the
earlier dBase option.
Facilities: Does this mean you want to know what
abilities it has? What abilities would you like for it to have?
Vocabulary: What are the terms you do not understand?
What are the terms that you have used that you think might
match the Base terms?
I have read information about relational databases
online as well as a couple of textbooks. I find the
vocabulary used there is different from what Base uses, but
it has never been so different that I could not recognize
the new terms and apply them. I even find differences
between the references I mentioned. I even found one source
that is based upon the Algebra of sets!
It does take some patience for a while to learn the
difference in the terms used. And it pays to be flexible.
--Dan
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