While tidying up my office recently rediscovered a manual from The TECHBOOK series
Libre Office The Complete Guide $ 26,99ca. There are three very short chapters on Base Create powerful databases Build your first database Use forms & queries I've already found some of the other chapters useful HTH Lucetta > On Dec 23, 2015, at 3:55 PM, elderdanlewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Dale Erwin <[email protected]> > Date:12/23/2015 2:49 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Spreadsheets > >> On 12/23/2015 10:13 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: >> You have given me the information that I was looking for. Thanks! >> I am writing a chapter, Planning/Designing your Database, for >> LibreOffice. Since many people use spreadsheets and shy away from >> databases, I wanted something to compare the two. The general >> conception seems to be creating databases is difficult, and creating >> spreadsheets is easier. I wanted to show that the basic principles for >> creating a database are not very different from creating a spreadsheet. > > One problem I see with your premise is that with the database, after it > is created you have to then create some sort of application to > manipulate/retrieve the data. > > Dale > > As with any database, a DBMS is used to give the database its structure. A > RDBMS is used for a relational database. I want to show that creating tables > is not too different than placing related data in a spreadsheet including the > formatting of the cells that hold the raw data. Also, location of a cell is > similar: column and row vs column and primary key. Of course if talking about > the entire spreadsheet or database,sheet or tables would also be used. > > Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
