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On 22/02/13 11:20, Neil Winchurst wrote:
Just for my own amusement I went and created a blank file, used ODBCConf to create a system wide ODBC reference and then connected to that file using Base and created tables/forms etc. Its not brilliant but it works and if you build up a library of SQL commands for certain actions then useable.On 22/02/13 11:03, tom wrote:As far as I know Base is a database in its own right, not a front end. It is, in my opinion, very over complicated. And, in my opinion anyway, it should have its own scripting language. It tries to use V Basic for the purpose, but this was never meant to be used for this purpose.On 22/02/13 09:28, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Neil Winchurst wrote:Being in the area I called on Kevin Lucas yesterday. We got to talking about databases and he suggested I try sqlite. I have installed version 3 with no problem. Now I need a gui front end. Kevin suggested using Libre Office for this purpose but I cannot yet work out how to do that. Can onyone on the list point me in the right direction please? I have also downloaded sqlitestudio but that doesn't seem to start properly. Any help gratefully accepted.https://code.google.com/p/phpliteadmin/ it's in the same vein as phpMyAdmin, but for sqlite. You'll need a local web server configured with php to use it though. GordonOnce you've got the odbc stuff configured for OOffice can you not use Base as a front end gui? Tom te tom te tomI was using Paradox for all this 20 years ago. Linux still has not caught up.Neil
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