On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:33:50 +1300 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:04:15PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 22 ian 13, 15:50:19, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:29:46PM +0000, Joe wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > and there's still nothing Open Source that comes close to > > > > Access. > > > > > > Which is good to know. > > [...] > > > IMNSHO a FLOSS Access replacement would be quite welcome (I haven't > > looked at Libreoffice Base in a looong time). Not even close yet. I do play with it from time to time, but it has a long way to go, though it is certainly under development. The data storage and retrieval bit is only a minor part of Access. > > Not easy to find (cause Access is a rather silly name), but: > > root@tal:~# apt-cache search Microsoft | grep Access > mdbtools-gmdb - JET / MS Access database (MDB) file viewer > Data storage is not the issue, and no serious Access application uses Access to store the data. An MDB data file is safe enough for a local single user, but it's no use multi-user and risky over even a wired network. I'd assume Sqlite has the same issues, for exactly the same reasons. All SQL database engines have been able to import from MDB pretty much forever, and MySQL has been a common Access back-end for many years. Access is primarily a database-aware visual RAD system, dangerous in the hands of idiots, but then not much isn't. You can throw together a three or four table application in a few minutes, without a line of code or building an MVC model, which would be massive overkill. At the moment, I'd still prefer to write PHP/Perl/whatever than use LibreOffice Base, and I'm hoping that will change. For a major project, PHP-Cake or RubyOnRails are the way to go, but they are hard work for small jobs. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130122120840.44e58...@jretrading.com
