IanW, I'm concerned with Base, but I have some things to put together for next Fri. which will be the data in some report. No big deal - just a starting point. Since time is tight, do you think I would be smarter to continue with Base/HSQL, or go to Base as the front tend and MySQL or MariaDB as the back end now? For this week, my data requirements are only 150KB, two tables, four queries, 1 report (my estimates as I type).
MySQL has some graphic front-ends for creation and admin., but I don't think MariaDB has this (yet), though there are some third party software that may do the same thing. So while MariaDB has the buzz, I may be better off with MySQL and linve with Oracle - at least for now. For desktop use, there is also Kexi. Ever use it and any comments? I would consider this as an interim step that will tide me over for at least a few months. My big concern is time. Learning MySQL/MariaDB is not something I'll do in a day, so this may have to be a longer term project. Dave, > > Hi Dave > > My penny's worth - I battled with plain Base for about 3 years. > Horrendous crashes and freezes and the amount of data I "lost" and had > to re-enter was unbelievable!!! (I'm a single user, single machine > running with Linux as my OpSys). Every time Base goes down it takes the > entire Database with it!!!!! So the only way round it is to make copies > every time you add data so that when it crashes you can rename the copy > and get going again. You WILL lose data I promise you!! > > I did everything I could but no luck. It then became obvious to me that > the problem was the embedded DB so I took the plunge and moved to MySQL > last year. I've had NO crashes or lost data since then. It's as solid as > a rock!! > > My recommendation would be to START right now with MySQL (or other > backend). Base as a front end is great as long as the backend is solid!! > > Just my opinion for what it's worth but I speak from hard experience!!! > > Best wishes > > IanW > Pretoria RSA. -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
