[libreoffice-users] How to learn Base & an external database program

From 1987-2002 I used and developed applications in PC-File (a 
flat-file, dbf-based, shareware database) to help with my bookkeeping 
work and various other tasks in the company I worked for.  Then from 
2002 I moved to Access 97 and developed dozens of (mostly relational) 
applications for the same job from 2002-2007.  Then I moved to a 
different state, and have not worked professionally with databases 
since.  However, I do still have 3 personal database applications that I 
use in what is now Access 2003.

What I want to do is to migrate those applications to LibreOffice Base, 
or to another open-source database front-end.  From what I've read on 
this list, I gather that will basically mean re-creating them, almost 
from scratch. I also gather that I will want to use an external database 
program (HSQLDB? Firebird? SQLite? ..).  But I have no knowledge of 
those programs.  Is there a good tutorial somewhere for any of them?  
Preferably one that goes thru the process of using Base as a front end 
for them?

Thanks,
-- Tim Deaton
email: tim@timdeaton.org
web: www.timdeaton.org
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