[GRLUG] Meeting tonight

[Szymon Machajewski]

Ben,

Some time ago I considered myself an Access expert.  Currently I only
work with Oracle and MySQL.
I did experiment with OO Base a few times but I'm stumbling my way
through it.  The gui is very much like Access (tables, queries, reports,
forms).   It has wizards for tables and the other objects.

I haven't used any tutorials but I'd like to learn about good ones.  I
would start on openoffice.org where you can find help/templates etc.

My guess is that if you are good with Access you can figure out OO
Base.


Thank you.
 
Szymon Machajewski

Solutions Engineer / DBA
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Oracle Certified Associate
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
www.grcc.edu/smachaje 


>>> "Benjamin Flanders" <flanderb at gmail.com> 12/5/2006 9:09 am >>>
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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