• OT: Database software

    From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to wordworks@greeleynet.com on Tue Jun 5 06:12:22 2018
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:03 -0600, Ken Springer
    <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:

    On 6/3/18 3:17 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
    In message <pf1l4f$vj8$1@news.albasani.net>, Ken Springer
    <wordworks@greeleynet.com> writes:
    Looking for recommendations for database software.

    Relational would be nice, but not mandatory. Simpler, and easier to
    learn and use than Access. I've never tried Paradox, part of Corel
    Office.

    I need more than using a spreadsheet can provide.

    Such as what? If we know what you _do_ want (or would like), we'll
    probably be able to advise better.

    It should be nothing more than simple data tracking, but I don't know
    what the future will be. It's possible a lot of text for a single field
    in each record, which I find to be a PITA in a spreadsheet field.

    (Do you actually need to do _sums_ on the entries anyway?

    I shouldn't. At most I expect to need nothing more than how many
    records reflect this concern, how many reflect that concern, etc.

    A non-relational database would work, just trying to avoid repetitive
    input of the same info, such as a person's name.

    I've used askSam and Inmagic, both non-relational text databases. The
    Windows version of Inmagic, however, is prohibitively expensive, so I
    continue to use the DOS Version. I'm not sure if askSam is still
    available.


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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to mayayana@invalid.nospam on Wed Jun 6 04:39:35 2018
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 08:46:50 -0400, "Mayayana"
    <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

    I got curious and tried making a database in Libre
    Office. It immediately complained that it couldn't
    access the data source. What? I just started the thing.
    where does it think a datasource might be? Then it
    told me I couldn't proceed without Java. Nothing's
    worth installing Java. I give up. :)

    Yes, that is the problem with Libre Office.

    It's not a stand-alone program, but requires something else to run.

    There is SQLite, but it requires a front end written in some language
    or other. Python does it, but then you have to have Python, like Java.



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