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Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

From David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?
Date 2020-07-26 00:00 +0200
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On 2020-07-25 13:22, Joe wrote:
> Shame about that. If you didn't need FOSS I'd recommend Microsoft
> Access, by far the best piece of software they ever produced (not that
> it's a high bar). It combines a simple database server, OK for one user,
> with a visual RAD system to make the user interface. Beyond doubt, it's
> the quickest way to do what you want, and you can probably do most of
> what you need with no code at all, just editing properties of objects.
> But you have to walk the Dark Path, and pay money.

+1


Using VBA to pull data from Access and feed it into other Office 
applications is very compelling-- Excel graphs, Word form letters, etc..


> There will never be a FOSS Access, because the FOSS database people
> sneer at it. A damn cheek, given the appalling state of LibreOffice
> Base. I've tried to use that, but it's impossibly buggy. OK for editing
> tables, now that it is finally able to talk to remote database servers
> reliably and without ODBC, but disastrous for making user interfaces.
> The last time I used the Report Writer (literally the last time ever) it
> simply wasn't working at all

Ouch.  was wondering about that when I posted the link to LibreOffice 
Base (which I have not tried for a very long time)...


It's been a while, but Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl worked for me back in the 
day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_stack


David

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FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-25 19:40 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2020-07-25 21:00 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-25 21:50 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 14:10 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 17:20 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 17:40 +0200
          Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
            Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-27 22:00 +0200
              Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 22:10 +0200
              Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 22:10 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-27 22:30 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-27 23:50 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-27 23:40 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 23:50 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-27 23:50 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 09:00 +0200
            Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-28 00:30 +0200
              Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-28 04:00 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 05:00 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 05:10 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-28 09:20 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 17:50 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-27 18:10 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-27 18:40 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 21:10 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-25 21:30 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-25 22:30 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-26 00:00 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-26 10:00 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-26 12:10 +0200
          Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-26 15:30 +0200
          Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-27 09:10 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-25 22:30 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-26 16:30 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-26 16:50 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-26 20:00 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-26 20:20 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Ajith R <ajithramayyan@yahoo.co.in> - 2020-07-27 16:20 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-27 17:20 +0200
    [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-29 11:50 +0200
      Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 12:20 +0200
      Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-29 13:20 +0200
        Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-29 14:10 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-29 22:10 +0200
            Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-30 11:40 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-07-30 22:20 +0200
      Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-30 11:30 +0200
        Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 13:20 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-30 16:20 +0200
        Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-30 17:00 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 17:10 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-30 19:40 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 14:50 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet          tools? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-07-30 15:10 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 16:10 +0200
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