Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

Simon

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 09:38 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: 

> On 11/08/11 02:53, Tom Davies wrote:
>  > Hmm, well maybe not the absolute worst.  A sieve or broken
>  > floppy disc or an ancient format that no program can read
>  > might be worse but yes, databases with an audit-trail are
>  > much more secure and plain text such as Csv ensure that there
>  > will always be some program somewhere that can at least
>  > access the data.
>
> I agree but there are no good front ends to the myriad of relational 
> database backends that you can utilise on Linux.
>
> I could list tons of SQL engines but as the copious posts on this list 
> about Base attest, there are few decent alternatives for Rapid 
> Application Development, Data Mining or even simple application 
> development available; let alone something that can be integrated into LO.
>
> When working on Windows I use Microsoft Visual Foxpro. Fantastic package 
> but now discontinued (and I have moved my primary platform to Ubuntu 
> now!). There is absolutely nothing comparable to it on Linux. You either 
> have to write a complete application every time you want to do something 
> (e.g. Python+wxPython; Dabo) or need to poke at a SQL file from the 
> command line.
>
> If I could recreate my spreadsheet in a database format that allowed me 
> to quickly develop and easily maintain an application -- I would be 
> developing it now.
>
> -- 
> Cheers Simon
>
>     Simon Cropper
>     Principal Consultant
>     Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
>     PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC
>     W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au

Both MySQL/MariaFB and Postgresql have GUI interfaces available for
Linux , MySQL Worbench from the MySQL site and pgadmin for Postgresql in
the Ubuntu repository. Both allow a users to most of the db work in a
desktop environment not CLI.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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