On 07/31/2016 07:36 PM, Ken Springer wrote: <snip>
I understand the concept of Front End/Back End, but never have dealt with it. Nor have I ever used MySQL, Mariadb, or others. Access and a bit of dBase is all I've ever used, and in general, even then that's more power than I've ever needed.
Ken,Actually, IIRC, Access has both a client and server built in. The user isn't normally aware of it. In my experience with Access 1.1, the server is called the "Jet" server. Today's Access may no longer use the Jet server, but I am sure something like it is still in there somewhere. I must admit the Access bundled concept is addictive. As a newbie to databases back in the 90s, I liked it and it was a shock and a learning experience to wean myself off of it and go with the industry standard forms of client/server architecture and the SQL language. Since then I have learned a lot and find the latter concept very powerful. In your case, if Access and dBase had/have more power than you ever needed and that power is all that you will ever need, then the LO internal HSQLDB engine is probably a good choice for your application.
Now that you mentioned dBase, you may, or may not, be aware that LO has a dBase option. But a limitation to it that I found is that older versions of dBase files are not supported. I have some old dBase 1.x files with dbase programs that will not load into LO, let alone run.
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