Seb wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:49:59 -0700,
Dan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
If you're used to MS Access, why not use it? Just set up an ODBC source
to point to Postgres and use Access like you would with any other
database.
I moved away from that malicious software (fortunately) and, as I said,
I'm in Debian testing (AMD64) now. But apparently it's possible to do the
same thing you suggest with Openoffice.org. This is not going smoothly
though, as the openoffice.org crashes before I visit the "tables" section
of their GUI. I'm sure my odbc setup is correct, as I can connect to a
postgresql database using the tools available in unixodbc. Another tool I
tried is rekall (available as Debian package also), but it's also crashing
and doesn't provide the flexibility that Openoffice.org offers. What
gives?
Not sure which software is malicious, Access or Windows? But if it's
Windows, at least you could run it in free VMware server ( I have to do
that sometimes ).
Other than that, as far as I know, there is nothing that comes close to
Access' functionality as a native app for *nix. OpenOffice talks a big
game but when you really start trying to use it for database stuff you
realize that it's pretty hamstrung compared to Access.
-Dan
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