On 12/16/05, Greg Maruszeczka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I keep a lot of personal information in a MySQL database. I have a few > > querys premade for the wife to use, but we have gotten to the point > > where we need a solution for her to be able to run her own queries. > > She is NOT about to learn SQL, and myPHPadmin is a little too > > compicated. I looked at an Access installation the other day and it > > seemed to be just what we need- a GUI for non-programmers to use a > > database. Is there any such beast for MySQL? Anthing that will run on > > Fedora Core 4 would be great. Or even a web-based solution would be > > fine- I do have apache on localhost. > > > > Check out Open Office 2.0 and its Base app, available in windows and > *nix versions. I think it can use MySQL through either ODBC or JDBC > connectors, though I haven't played with it much (yet) to evaluate it. >
Thanks, I will take a look at it. I thought that Base uses it's own database backend- otherwise whoever wants to install a complete OO package must then also install mysql. We already use OO apps (Writer and Calc), so this is not a problem. Dotan http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_monitors.html :
