Andrew Jensen wrote:
Fred
Frazelle wrote:
'because at work we pretty much put the db
together and then just work with it. .....
I did not mean to be overly assertive Fred,
Actually your response offers plenty of information. First - somethingt
that Frank has mentioned a couple of times - that of whom the target
user for Base is. I would say that for someone that is going to build
one application and then "....almost forget how we put it together",
just changing from having to work with three terms ( tables, views and
queries ) to being able to work with just two ( tables and queries )
would have to be a big plus. Eliminating even one step, no matter how
small, would also be a big plus. Bottom line is that I know, from
pervious messages here, that Frank and his team are diligently working
towards an application that addresses your needs.
The main thing we used this for was what you
mentioned above: the ability to be able to update any of the columns.
The other thing which we use quite a bit is the replaceable parameters
option.
i hope this helps.
Precisely my point. I spent more then a couple of hours this weekend
thinking about this, and trying to come up with use case scenarios
where having the ability to base a query on a query would offer some
real enhancement for a non-IT specific office user. ( Perhaps not a
good discription of the user, but hopefully everyone understands what I
mean ) I keep running into a situation where the real benefit is not
this feature at all, but rather some tangenical functionality. For
example having the designer be a bit smater, or the fact that when a
calculated field is in a result set, as the update command should not
it trys to write data to the calculated field. The fact that one must
have a left outer join in order to make a result set, joining two
tables, updatable but then not allowing multile outer joins - so a
thind table can not be part of this query. Anyway, I am beginning to
ramble - and I have much of these comments in a document I am
finaliziing and will put up for whatever use it may be later this week.
Drew
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Believe it or not, i was so confused
when i started trying to use other dbs other than MS because of the
term "views" that i thought i'd never get it figured out. i wanted to
change to not only the "base" db used by OOo but to Postgresql because
it would allow us to have multiple users on the one db, something about
which our "IT" dept. has been complaining recently and telling us that
we are going to have to purchase another db program??!!, something
which i suspect will cost us in the thousands of dollars. They say
that all our crashes are bec. MS just doen't handle multiple users very
well -- we've only got about 14 - 15 users on the thing but it crashes
every couple of months or so anyway...
Well, guys, have a beautiful day! :)
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