Re: [LUG] Flat-file database

[Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/06/13 17:54, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
> On 6 June 2013 17:41, Grant Phillips-Sewell
> <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 6 June 2013 17:21, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>         On 6 Jun, 2013, at 4:48 pm, Neil Winchurst wrote:
>
>             Kexi
>
>
>         Ah-ha! That looks like it might be the lead I wanted. Hopefully
>         my use case is so trivial that I won't bump up against any of
>         the limits and problems that you found. Thanks Neil.
>
>
>     When I looked at Kexi for a minimal database (multiple tables,
>     simple relationships, simple forms, etc) it seemed like the most
>     appropriate. I fully agree regarding LOBase - horrible, horrible,
>     horrible!
>
>     The biggest problem I bumped into with Kexi is importing data from a
>     spreadsheet to be appended to an existing table. Nightmare. If
>     you're bringing the data in from a spreadsheet, do it once and them
>     stop using the spreadsheet completely! I also found Kexi wasn't too
>     enamored with the idea of user-created primary keys - even if you
>     *know* the data in a given field is completely unique, it still
>     might just throw a wobbly and refuse to key it, insisting that it
>     creates the key instead.
>
>     Other than that, I quite like Kexi. This also looks quite
>     interesting: http://www.glom.org/
>
>
> Except, it seems that Glom is dead in the water. *sigh*
>
> Grant.
When I was researching databases in Linux I came across glom. My advice, 
for what it is worth, is don't bother.

Neil

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