[GRLUG] Meeting tonight

[Michael Mol]

OO.org Base is awful; I've tried to use it.

It's an excellent concept, with intended advances over Access, but
it's extremely buggy and unstable.

Once they get the kinks worked out, it'll be an awesome product.
Until then, I'll only use it to create visualizations of table
layouts.

On 12/5/06, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Szymon,
> How does OO.org dBase compare to Access?  I have had pretty extensive
> experience with Access and VBA due to my last job.  I would love to
> learn how to create quick database applications without the huge (for
> me) expense of Access.  Is there a book that would help?  Website,
> tutorial or something?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ben
>
> On 12/4/06, Al Tobey <tobert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/4/06, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sorry I couldn't make it.  I tried, honestly I did, but it took 45
> > > minutes to go from the south side of 28th to Calvin college and that
> > > is where I turned around.  There must have been an accident.
> > > I am interested in the database topic, are there slides that can be put online?
> >
> > That's it.   You're out.
> >
> > But really, neither Syzmon or I did any powerpoint or anything.    I
> > talked in boring detail about AD Kerberos and Linux authentication in
> > general.   Syzmon talked about OO.org dBase and RDBMS's.    He covered
> > how you can get started with SQL and databases using a desktop
> > database tool like dBase or Access then progressed into how to choose
> > a DB server like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
> >
> > If you have any specific questions, I'm sure one of us on the list can
> > answer.   By the way, the O'Reilly SQL Cookbook is one of their best
> > new books in years.   If you're doing any amount of SQL work, buy it.
> >   It covers all the major RDBMS's and manages to cover every major
> > feature of each, acting as a kind of rosetta stone.   People at work
> > are tired of hearing me rave about how good it is - it's that good.
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Anthony-Molinaro/dp/0596009763/sr=8-1/qid=1165289643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6824677-0812617?ie=UTF8&s=books
> >
> > See you next time.
> >
> > -Al Tobey
> >
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