On 11/08/11 02:53, Tom Davies wrote: > Hmm, well maybe not the absolute worst. A sieve or broken > floppy disc or an ancient format that no program can read > might be worse but yes, databases with an audit-trail are > much more secure and plain text such as Csv ensure that there > will always be some program somewhere that can at least > access the data.
I agree but there are no good front ends to the myriad of relational database backends that you can utilise on Linux.
I could list tons of SQL engines but as the copious posts on this list about Base attest, there are few decent alternatives for Rapid Application Development, Data Mining or even simple application development available; let alone something that can be integrated into LO.
When working on Windows I use Microsoft Visual Foxpro. Fantastic package but now discontinued (and I have moved my primary platform to Ubuntu now!). There is absolutely nothing comparable to it on Linux. You either have to write a complete application every time you want to do something (e.g. Python+wxPython; Dabo) or need to poke at a SQL file from the command line.
If I could recreate my spreadsheet in a database format that allowed me to quickly develop and easily maintain an application -- I would be developing it now.
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