Simon On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 09:38 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote:
> 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. > > -- > Cheers Simon > > Simon Cropper > Principal Consultant > Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd > PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC > W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au > Both MySQL/MariaFB and Postgresql have GUI interfaces available for Linux , MySQL Worbench from the MySQL site and pgadmin for Postgresql in the Ubuntu repository. Both allow a users to most of the db work in a desktop environment not CLI. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For 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
