Hi All, On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 10:27 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > > > ________________________________ > From: Cor Nouws <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 28 July, 2011 20:47:59 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow > > Hi Tom, > > Tom Cloyd wrote (28-07-11 18:06) > > > I completely agree. LO without a function Base won't fly. Either TDF > > recognizes this - by DOING something - or we have our answer. > > Well, the challenges with base are known. This does not mean that there is an > instant solution. However the fast growing support for TDF and from > interested > people with developing skills, make that there are reasons for some optimism > :-) > Maybe the LibreOffice conference or another hackers event is a good > opportunity > too to make so first steps, share experience ... > > Regards, > Cor > > > Hi :) > If that was going to be enough then we would already have seen some efforts > made > in Base in the last 11 months just as we have seen efforts and even good > results > in all the other apps. Waiting and hoping is getting nowhere. It is also > not a > good management strategy. > > Regards from > Tom :) > On the subject of databases, is there a good back end that could be used and our code is only a front end for MySQL, SQLlite, etc. My idea is most office users want a friendlier interface that hides many of the details of database operation (it develops the actual query) and allows relatively easy design, report generation, and data entry. I have been playing around with MariaDB/MySQL with MySQL-Workbench as the GUI. This is probably more advanced than most office users would need but is has some good ideas for graphical database design. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
