On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:04:16 -0400 Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) > > How? The OP request was for something simpler than SQL (presumably > because he didn't want to learn SQL?), so the response "learn SQL > anyway, and in addition learn my favorite language as a way to pass > the SQL commands to the backend" simply misses the point. > The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. Very basic SQL, no more than a few queries, is an appropriate thing to learn, along with the (minimal) care and feeding of MySQL/MariaDb. I've never really gone beyond select, insert, delete and update queries, resorting to Google to temporarily learn to add users, change privileges etc. As a hobbyist, I've never needed to go near stored procedures, transactions etc. I was once SQLphobic, avoiding the use of applications which required a MySQL database, looking around for 'simpler' ways to do things, which invariably required more work. Eventually I was forced into it, and I currently have more than 20 domestic, business and experimental databases running in MariaDb. I added another a week ago, and when I work up the enthusiasm, I'll make a user interface for it. I have at least one database whose only user interface is PhpMyAdmin... -- Joe