-------- Original message -------- From: Dale Erwin <dale.er...@casaerwin.org> Date:12/23/2015 2:49 PM (GMT-05:00) To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Spreadsheets
On 12/23/2015 10:13 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: > You have given me the information that I was looking for. Thanks! > I am writing a chapter, Planning/Designing your Database, for > LibreOffice. Since many people use spreadsheets and shy away from > databases, I wanted something to compare the two. The general > conception seems to be creating databases is difficult, and creating > spreadsheets is easier. I wanted to show that the basic principles for > creating a database are not very different from creating a spreadsheet. One problem I see with your premise is that with the database, after it is created you have to then create some sort of application to manipulate/retrieve the data. Dale As with any database, a DBMS is used to give the database its structure. A RDBMS is used for a relational database. I want to show that creating tables is not too different than placing related data in a spreadsheet including the formatting of the cells that hold the raw data. Also, location of a cell is similar: column and row vs column and primary key. Of course if talking about the entire spreadsheet or database,sheet or tables would also be used. Dan
