Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 12:18 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: I came from a Borland's Paradox world and after that moved to Access 95-97-2000-2002. However, most of my work as a developer has been done with Sybase, SQL Anywhere and right now I am working with MySQL. I know nothing about Lotus

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
Thanks for your reply - if you do find anything more in your explorations I would be glad to hear it. Anne I will take a look at pgaccess this weekend. I will post my opinion. See you, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-08 Thread Milos Prudek
OK - I looked it up. It looks very approachable. Is PostgreSQL a better choice than MySQL, do you think? For personal database, it is a better choice because pgaccess is easier to use than web-based phpMySQLadmin. For server use, PostgreSQL has many features that MySQL does not, such as

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 9:24 am, Milos Prudek wrote: OK - I looked it up. It looks very approachable. Is PostgreSQL a better choice than MySQL, do you think? For personal database, it is a better choice because pgaccess is easier to use than web-based phpMySQLadmin. For server use,

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 20:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 9:24 am, Milos Prudek wrote: OK - I looked it up. It looks very approachable. Is PostgreSQL a better choice than MySQL, do you think? For personal database, it is a better choice because pgaccess is easier to

RE: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-08 Thread Richard Babcock
FYI for the group. I have used Approach since before Lotus bought it and it's much more like Filemaker/Filemaker Pro for those of you who have used that. Each of the tables is actually stored as a single table database and linked together rather than the Access method of a single database with

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 10:07 pm, Richard Babcock wrote: FYI for the group. I have used Approach since before Lotus bought it and it's much more like Filemaker/Filemaker Pro for those of you who have used that. Each of the tables is actually stored as a single table database and linked

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
I came from a Borland's Paradox world and after that moved to Access 95-97-2000-2002. However, most of my work as a developer has been done with Sybase, SQL Anywhere and right now I am working with MySQL. I know nothing about Lotus Approach or FileMaker. I am still working some stuffs with

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:55:22 +: I want to migrate these files to linux - at present I'm using Win4Lin to access them. MySQL looks over the top for a single user app, and as far as I can see Katabase is still in early development. I have done a tiny bit of SQL

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 5:10 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:55:22 +: I want to migrate these files to linux - at present I'm using Win4Lin to access them. MySQL looks over the top for a single user app, and as far as I can see Katabase is still in early

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:15:42 +: Thanks for the quick reply. I get the idea that SQL is more suited to client/server setup. Is this correct? How does it perform where the database files, engine, and ui are all on one pc? It is amazingly fast. Even considering

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 5:45 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:15:42 +: Thanks for the quick reply. I get the idea that SQL is more suited to client/server setup. Is this correct? How does it perform where the database files, engine, and ui are all on one

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread JM5379
them in common. i hope i described what i wanted to say such that it makes sense to someoen besides me *g*. joe --- Original Message --- From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Personal database use On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 5:10 pm, Paul wrote: In reply

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread JM5379
sadly, i rather glossed over some of the details of your question so my answer wasn't as relevant as i'd hoped. never mind... sigh. --- Original Message --- From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Personal database use On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 5:45 pm

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Milos Prudek
I want to migrate these files to linux - at present I'm using Win4Lin to access them. MySQL looks over the top for a single user app, and as far as I can see Katabase is still in early development. I have done a tiny bit of SQL work, so the idea doesn't panic me, but I wonder if it is the

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 03:55, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a large quantity of data collected over a long time in Lotus Approach databases. These are in many respects like Access, I think, with Lotus Approach supplying the front-end, relational engine, forms designer and query tools which act

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 7:16 pm, Milos Prudek wrote: I want to migrate these files to linux - at present I'm using Win4Lin to access them. MySQL looks over the top for a single user app, and as far as I can see Katabase is still in early development. I have done a tiny bit of SQL work, so

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 7:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne, the physical location of the different components are irrelevant. the database (Mysql) is the server and the client (mysql cli client, myphpadmin, perl/cgi/html webpage, whatever) is the client. they can easily be on the same