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Re: [LUG] nice looking Access type application for linux (and others)

 

Mark Jose wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007 16:18, Aaron Trevena wrote:
>   
>> http://www.kexi-project.org/about.html
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>> Looks nice - I plan to try it out.
>>
>> A.
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>
> I used Kexi a few weeks back to see if it would be able to take a csv file I 
> was sent and convert it into a database for the purpose of creating a simple 
> MySQL powered search page for the data.
> It was actually quite user friendly - the first database program in Linux I 
> have actually found useful - but I admit I have no database skills at all!  
> I suspect you will be able to do a lot more than I could with it Aaron! 
> The search page itself took more time to set up (my php skills suck too it 
> seems!) than creating the database itself. Kexi imported the csv file and the 
> resulting file could be used in MySQL without further problems. 
>
> Mark
>
>   
Access to MySQL another possiblity ??

Dave

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