Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Help Anyone

Hi :)
When people use Base with the internal back-end they have sometimes
reported data-loss.  Other database programs do their utmost to avoid any
data-loss.

On this mailing list we tend to push people into using external back-ends,
as a priority, even if their specific Base-related question has nothing to
do with that issue.  People here have helped at least one individual
migrate their tables from the internal back-end to an external one in
step-by-step detail.  I gather people now have a faster route, or
documentation to help people with that migration, making it much less
painful.  The last couple of times the individuals seemed to find it
surprisingly easy.

One of the massive benefits of Base, imo, that makes it vastly more
powerful than Access is that it makes it so easy to connect to a wide
variety of external back-ends and tries to do that by default.  Access can
be twisted into doing it too but makes it much more difficult.  This makes
Base highly scalable and suitable for a huge range of very different
scenarios and much more future-proof than Access could hope for.  On the
other hand it makes it a little more difficult to understand.

The marketing team don't seem to quite grasp that simply 'selling' Base as
being much like Access is actually quite damaging and completely misses the
huge advantages that Base offers.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 19 November 2014 09:39, Mark Stanton <mark@vowleyfarm.co.uk> wrote:

> Tom, I'm not entirely sure, when you said
>
> > So, it's only Base that loses data
>
> that you properly comunicated what you meant. What did you mean?
>
> I would absolutely agree with the comments made about not storing binaries
> in
> the database. It's not a good idea, whatever database you use.
>
> And don't use the standard "HSQLdb included" setup, it's really too prone
> to
> errors.
>
> Regards
> Mark
>
>
>
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