Hi,
I have a set of flat files which once upon a time were an access database.
Once I migrated to Linux, I slowly turned it into a mysql database, and did
elementary database management using kmysql. Kmysql is no longer maintained,
IIRC (last update in January 2001), and its form feature was not powerful
enough for me. Result is that in this one area I have not been able to get as
much juice out of open source as I had with windoze.
Now I have been thinking for a while of using kab (kde's addressbook), but
since it is kind of xml based, I will lose the advantages of a dbms.
Questions:
* is it possible to use kab as a frontend to a dbms?
* are there mechanism floating out there in cyberspace to facilitate migrating
from a dbms to kab AND BACK?
I started using a dbms for my addressbook as an exercise to learn database
design and later sql, but by now I like the more poserful features. I have
about 700 contacts in that database, with numerous data items for some of the
people, items I would like to be able to sort on, query, etc.
Thanks,
Arie Folger
--
It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
-- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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