On 27 March 2013 17:12, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Guy Waterval <waterval....@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > Hi all, > > > > 2013/3/27 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> > > > > > > > > I like an embedded DB for those times that I desire a small DB for > small > > > data that is relational. For larger data sets, the embedded DB is > > > insufficient. > > > > > > > Indeed, end users and a lot of little structures could take profit of a > > little DB easy to use, ie associations, sport clubs, TPE, museums, > schools, > > restaurants, little hotels, storekeepers, etc. Moreover, you can > transform > > the weakpoint in a marketing argument : why wearing shoes 45 if my size > is > > 40? > > > > A+ > > -- > > gw > > > > My opinion is that users and AOO would be better served if users chose and > installed their own small DB (one that would support some typical > connectivity -- ODBC, JDBC) instead of AOO supplying one with the product. > Many such good small scale DBs exist. It just seems to me that no matter > what we have/choose now as an embedded DB, and problems that may ensue with > it, and therefore might require future replacement, is a continual > problematic cycle we really don't need. > +1, but maybe we should recommend 2 one for really small scale and one for larger db. That way we do not have the maintenance and we do not leave the users standing in the rain.
> > At this point, given that we don't really know what folks re doing with > Base. I think it would be better to do a transitional move -- take out the > embedded DB and therefore "Create new DB" option would go away. Let the > front-end stuff alone. > +1 > > Naturally, we would have to investigate some export mechanisms for users, > etc to preserve the data they may already have in ODB. > e.g. through calc, which whould be relatively easy. rgds Jan I. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "Achieving happiness requires the right combination of Zen and Zin." >
