On 06/02/2012, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Or maybe the failure is the refusal to understand the purpose for > each part of a database. Tables and forms are for adding, modifying, and > deleting data. Queries and reports are for data output. If you want to > enter data, you use a table or form. If you want to manipulate data, you > use queries. (With Report Builder, you can also manipulate data in a > report.)
Shouldn't we as users contribute to encouraging other users to always think: what is the most appropriate use for the job? How many questions posted are the result of making a mistake to use a spreadsheet when a database is more appropriate? > I wonder how many people who use LO have read chapter 8 of the > Getting Started Gude, "Getting Started with Base"? I know that I have > very seldom seen a comment about its contents. (I wrote it and am > presently updating it. I'm also working on the Base Guide in its > entirety.) > Somebody mentioned tutorials about open office base; very good information. Maybe the authors responsible for calc should add more conceptual advice about whether certain tasks are best performed in base, not calc. -- 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
