Peter wrote:
> I also installed FilemakerPro and got it working (comes with
> webserver with cgi built in). I like that rdbms much better than
> access.
One thing to be sure you're aware of when selecting FileMaker to develop on,
especially with the setup you descibed (networked with Macs and Linux) is
the fact that it has no SQL or ODBC access built in. They are considering it
for future releases, and there is a plugin for version 4 (though after
looking at the plugin it looked somewhat underpowered), but until it's
included you may have trouble accessing the db from outside.
I believe, though I'm not positive, that it is not easy to directly access
the table structure in FileMaker, either, which you can with Access. Doesn't
FileMaker hide the internal structure and table linking from the user?
> It was also very simple to get running (very, very simple).
> And getting the web/database working was a little trouble but I got
> it working in about 20% of the time before I gave up on the windows
> solution.
I'm milling over the choice of
a) NT/Perl/ColdFusion/SQL Server or
b) Unix/Perl/Modules/mySQL
for a large project now. I am leaning toward solution "a" because of the
development interface for SQL Server, which in my case will be Access. I
have not found any good tools for mySQL that will allow me to rapidly
develop complex queries and change table designs during development, which
Access offers. Do you know of any Linux GUI tools for administering and
developing mySQL?
TIA,
Jack
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