I agree with Ralph. diff(1) is awfully useful too, perhaps more so with
text than data, but traditional Unix tools don't really make that
distinction. I did recently solve a problem that had baffled a user of
Access, by diff'ing two large files that he had assumed should be
identical, and
MySQL is probably the dominant free database running on Linux. The core
RDBMS runs a command line SQL client, but GUIs can be added: you can
install phpMyAdmin which gives control via a GUI web interface, including
all the DML you require, and the MySL owners Oracle also make available
'MySQL
Firebird is probably in your Linux distro's package manager. That would
probably be the best place to install it from. l haven't used it myself
though so I don't know how well it would meet your needs.
It might also be worth considering sqlite. It doesn't have the graphical
interface you are
Re: sqlite, there are a bunch of separate GUI tools available, from Firefox
plugins to things like sqliteman, though to be fair you'll still need SQL
knowledge for doing anything useful.
On 1 November 2013 09:41, Ken Hutton kehut...@googlemail.com wrote:
Firebird is probably in your Linux
Hi David,
Ken wrote:
It might also be worth considering sqlite. It doesn't have the
graphical interface you are looking for but sql is quite easy to
learn.
That would be my suggestion too since you talk of select and update
queries. The diagrams mentioned are railroad diagrams showing the
On 31/10/2013 22:00, David Smith wrote:
I am looking for free software to run under Linux to implement a small
database. A free version of MS Access would be ideal! Access is part
of MS Office professional and allows you to create and run SQL queries
by point and click rather than needing to
On Friday, November 01, 2013 11:01 AM Simon P Smith wrote
At the risk of being burnt at the stake :-)
Many good suggestions in this thread but let me throw up one more...
You said free software. Whilst I use postgres and MySQL extensively
some clients
are M$ shops and so the database
Oh, regarding firebird, I find on my ubuntu box that:
sudo aptitude install flamerobin
Installs firebird and a GUI client called flamerobin, if you've got a
preference for firebird over sqlite.
On 1 November 2013 12:48, David Smith david.sm...@aic.co.uk wrote:
On Friday, November 01, 2013
On Friday, November 01, 2013 12:54 PM Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote:
Oh, regarding firebird, I find on my ubuntu box that:
sudo aptitude install flamerobin
Installs firebird and a GUI client called flamerobin, if you've got a
preference for firebird over sqlite.
Thanks but will try
** David Smith david.sm...@aic.co.uk [2013-11-01 16:57]:
On Friday, November 01, 2013 4:27 PM Paul Tansom wrote
snip
I think I've been put off desktop databases by MS Access where
I've had several
battles to get it to do what I want it to. Generally I've wanted
to interact
with the SQL it
Hi Paul,
these databases have been simple table of information that need to be
stored, updated and printed. It would almost work as a table in a word
processed document bar the fact that you can't sort properly there.
Before databases were common on Unix, this would be the province of its
This may be outside what DLUG normally discusses. If so please say and I
will look elsewhere.
I am looking for free software to run under Linux to implement a small
database. A free version of MS Access would be ideal! Access is part of MS
Office professional and allows you to create and run
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