Semi-OT: Database for "average" users

Joseph Kubik josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sat Apr 30 16:58:36 UTC 2005


What do people need to put into a DB of this nature?

The problem that I've seen is that while easy to use (MSaccess in
particular), a small light DB is soon just another albatross because
the data becomes corrupt, or you have to port the whole db to
something that allows multiuser access, correctly.
If a flat file is not good enough, I immediately go for a real DB.
-Joseph-
On 4/30/05, Kevin C. Krinke <kckrinke-eqjHHVKjh9GttCpgsWEBFlaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 12:09 -0400, phil wrote:
> <snipped for brevity>
> > I guess the question is, anyone know of a project designed to bring an
> > all-in-one database solution to end users such that conceptually easy
> > things are, in fact, easy to do?  (Does anyone think it's even
> > possible?)
> 
> OpenOffice.org 2.0 has a MS Access type database. I've recently fiddled
> with the snapshot builds and everything seems to be functional though I
> did not do anything beyond tinkering with the database functionality.
> 
> http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html
> 
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> Kevin C. Krinke <kckrinke-eqjHHVKjh9GttCpgsWEBFlaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
> Open Door Software Inc.
> 
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