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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:35:33 +0100 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But the reason people used the Access database (JetDB) with Access was > not that it was good, but that real databases were expensive and > required a lot of management. Once you take away those barriers of > price, and tuning, when proper databases "just work" then why bother? > Perhaps part of my problem is that I find working with a database that has no GUI is unutterably tedious. I cannot believe that anyone uses, eg mysql, all the time in a CLI. I know that there are separate front end programs to provide a GUI, I suppose I expect a program that was built from scratch to contain everything will be superior. A separate GUI, to my mind, written by someone who did not have anything to do with creating the database originally, has to be some sort of compromise. I am ready to learn otherwise. > Probably SQLite is closest, and many things have embedded it. > > But I think you mix up what is "bundled together" with what is a > software project. The JetDB project had a life independent of Microsoft > Access, yet you'd probably regard them as one product. > > Most of the free software stuff has sought database independence, which > means the Perl hackers here really don't care if it is Postgres, SQLite, > or MySQL (at least most of the time when they are coding), and will > choose the database to fit the scale of the client and the task. > Are you saying then that we will never see the equivalent of Paradox in Linux? I didn't like Access at all, but I thought that the database engine in Paradox was very good. Anyway I will see how I get on with knoda connected to whatever. Thanks for the comments Neil Winchurst > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html