Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Sun, 18 May 2025 11:41:46 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2025-05-18 04:33, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 18 May 2025 01:21:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

Standalone Office is just “legacy” these days, let’s face it.
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As for Access users, LibreOffice Base gives access to back-end DBMSes
ranging from SQLite to MySQL/MariaDB, any one of which can leave
Access in the dust.

 
I doubt it is the database as much as the apps built around it.  I had
to get employee information from a Access database but it was straight
SQL programming. However a ranger at another national park built an
entire incident handling application using Access. I was impressed or
horrified,
take your pick. Winters get real long at that particular park.

 
MS Access makes it easy to create databases and the applications, more
than LO Base. LO has neglected that aspect, I'm sorry to say.

I've only extracted data from either but I wonder how much Visual Foxpro
DNA found its way into the Access world? After MS bought Fox Foxpro had
quite a long run alongside Access. Th Fox probably died as open source
xBase approaches became available.

The Access site says:

"Create and share apps without being a developer

Build business apps from templates or from scratch. With rich and
intuitive design tools, Access helps you create appealing and highly
functional apps in a minimal amount of time."


While there are templates and other tools I don't think they ever made
that claim about SQL Server. SSMS is powerful but doesn't lend itself to
independent apps. Likewise Power BI is great for visualization but not
management or creation.