As you are familiar with VBA I can see two other options: 1. Use Christian Werner's ODBC driver from Access (or Excel): http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/
2. Use Olaf Schmidt's COM dll with Access (or Excel): http://www.vbrichclient.com/#/en/About/ RBS On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Balaji Ramanathan < balaji.ramanat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using SQLite without any programming language so far. I > maintain the data in SQLite and use SqliteStudio (www.sqlitestudio.pl) for > inputting data into it and running queries to look at outputs. However > SqliteStudio does not have a programmable back-end that allows me to take > the outputs of a query and do things with it (such as calculating running > sums and averages, for instance). So, if things become too expensive for > standard SQL, I just do without. > > In the past, I have maintained my data in an Access database and > developed a pretty extensive set of forms and reports to input and extract > data. I moved to SQLite because I wanted to move off a proprietary > platform onto a free one. And SQLite is faster and includes more SQL > functionality like CTE's also. > > But I miss the nice front-end with forms to take inputs (especially > parent and child forms to input data related to foreign keys) and the > reports to format my outputs the way I wanted them. I could also do > running sums and averages, percentile scores and other things that require > looking at a data dump of an entire columns of contents to do efficiently. > > I am familiar with programming in C and Java, but none of my > programming has been for the windows platform (except for the programming > inside MS Access, which was done in VBA). I have never developed GUI front > ends with forms, buttons, etc. > > Is there a third party free tool like MS Access that would allow me to > connect to a SQLite db in the back-end and enable me to create a custom > front-end to it with forms and reports? All my searches for this kind of > tool only lead me to tools like SqliteStudio, which is a GUI front end for > SQLite, but not a programmable one like I want. If anyone can point me > towards a programmable GUI front-end development tool (preferrably > open-source, but just free and well-maintained is sufficient), I would > appreciate it greatly. > > Thank you very much. > > Balaji Ramanathan > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
