Re: MS Access Frontend

[bret_stern]

My two cents. Access is awesome. Extremley fast prototyping environment. 
Found on most pc's in businesses. Great reporting tools.
It is my go-to tool for prototyping DB structures, reports, great 
import/export tools, and boatloads of people who are glad to share

vba code and solutions

My only bitch is the dumbing down of the application by Microsoft, 
Adding bands, and hiding past tools...killing the performance with xml 
bs..."there, I feel better now"



Libre Base does alot of the same things, just a different way.

If learning is the point of this discussion, then learn as much as 
possible about each one.


I started using win32 back in odd-06 with ODBC and direct db-api calls, 
but have steadily drifted towards RAD environments...although there's 
great satisfaction and control the lower you go.



When the prototyping is over , I've been pushing Lazarus as my
multi-plateform development environment.

It still pisses me off how abused Excel is, but people don't know the
difference.

Keep on rockin






On 11/30/2019 2:34 PM, Jason L. Amerson wrote:

I am a Linux user too. I just bought my children Windows laptops so it would
be easier for them to use. I had to buy me a Windows one too so that I can
do the whole Microsoft Family thing and monitor them a little. But I think
it is time to throw them into the deep end and see if they can swim.

Jason L. Amerson


-Original Message-
From: Adrian Klaver 
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 01:52 PM
To: Jason L. Amerson ; 'Martin Gainty'
; PostgreSQL 
Subject: Re: MS Access Frontend

On 11/30/19 11:04 AM, Jason L. Amerson wrote:

Thanks Martin. I have decided to go another route. I have nothing but
problems whenever I use Microsoft products. I personally think that
Microsoft was shit when it started, and it is still shit 35 years later.
So, I am just going to take Windows off my computers and put Linux on
them and just use a different client.


I'm a Linux user and I applaud your move. Just be aware you will not find an
Access replacement on Linux. You will find things that have subsets of its
functionality, but not a drop in replacement.




Jason L. Amerson





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Re: performance of loading CSV data with COPY is 50 times faster than Perl::DBI

[bret_stern]

"already suffering from a complex of coding in an unreadable language"

hearsay and conjecture

On 2/3/2020 8:57 AM, Ravi Krishna wrote:

already
suffering from a complex of coding in an unreadable language

Re: R: Postgresql 12.x on Windows (vs Linux)

[bret_stern]

We're one of those "stuck" in windows, as are most of my clients; 
Application licenses, Windows platform licenses, Remote desktop 
licenses, Terminal Server licenses...on and on.


A five year examination of licenses and application costs are staggering.

Our wish is to be free of those costs, and have a significant edge
on our competitionor at least use the hundreds of thousands of 
dollars for other uses.


Best to be knowlegable of both to see how clearly your being ripped off.

But I do understand the walls you'll encounter trying to change the IT 
infrastructure.


People get a new phone, and don't make a peep about all the learning 
they do; but dare you take away they're Excel spreadsheet..murderer..


Just saying,


On 3/2/2020 7:52 AM, Ron wrote:
LOL.  Double LOL, even.  We -- and a huge number of other organizations 
-- are completely wrapped in the Windows environment, from Outlook and 
Excel to SharePoint to the myriad of 3rd party programs that *only* work 
on Windows.


On 3/2/20 9:37 AM, Tim Clarke wrote:

Not at all, we found that Linux "expertise" is 1/10 the cost of Windows
expertise. Time to plan for getting rid of the site license.

Tim Clarke
IT Director
Direct: +44 (0)1376 504510 | Mobile: +44 (0)7887 563420

On 02/03/2020 15:32, Ron wrote:

Your comment assumes that OP does *not* have have a site license, and
*does* have Linux expertise.  Neither assumption is always valid.

(And, of course, the Windows server might already exist.)

On 3/2/20 9:06 AM, Tim Clarke wrote:

But why even bother paying for MS licenses? Postgres runs like a train
on Linux. Save your money.

Tim Clarke
IT Director
Direct: +44 (0)1376 504510 | Mobile: +44 (0)7887 563420

On 02/03/2020 15:01, Roberto Della Pasqua wrote:

Well,

on Windows you should try ReiserFS over a nvme optimized WHQL
certified hardware.

*Da:* Robert Ford
*Inviato:* lunedì 2 marzo 2020 15:42
*A:*pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
*Oggetto:* Postgresql 12.x on Windows (vs Linux)

I am aware that this might be a broad question, but I am not expecting
*very *specific answers either:

When it come to running a modern PostgreSQL server, which serves say 1
TB of data, are there substantial differences in performance between
Windows Server 2019 and Linux today?  I know there are some issues
with shared_buffers and windows, but does it manifest in real
performance issues?

I have searched the web for this question, but is surprised to find
very few concrete benchmarks on this.  Anyone with real world
experience on this topic?

best regards

RF


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