Re: DATABASE on RH

["David E. Fox" <dfox belvdere vip best com>]

> Have you looked at StarOffice. It has a M$Access clone as part of the package. I

Well I have and even have used :) SO 5.0 here and although the database
is more or less there, it doesn't seem to be much more than a simple
flat-file addressbook model. Access, on the other hand, is relatively
powerful, though not in the same class as Oracle, Informix, etc.

Although PostgreSQL and the other offerings are valuable and
powerful, it's rather difficult on the typing fingers to type in
things like 'insert into phonebook values ('......') everytime you
want to add a new record (most of the query tools I've seen don't
even have readline capability built in, either). And to have to
write software to get a desired interface is beyond many people.

Although databasing with Web forms and so forth seems to be the
way things are progressing, it would be nice to just have a
simplified (although still able to have a powerful enough
backend) method for designing, data entry & retrieval of
the data. Paradox and/or Q&A come to mind in the DOS
arena, and I haven't seen anything close as of yet.

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