[Kexi] Linux Voice review, Kexi wins in the Databases category

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 14 December 2015 at 13:13,  <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> The exclusive group or RAD users is not small but severely distributed
>> so quite hard to reach. Misused spreadsheets for example are
>> competitors too. There's always room for IT projects without any
>> reasonable budget assigned.
>>
> Yes, that's my pet hate, people using spreadsheets for storing tables
> of text information.  :-)
>

That triggered creation of this chapter of the handbook:
https://userbase.kde.org/Kexi/Handbook/Introduction_to_Databases/Database_and_Spreadsheet
Nothing revolutionary and can be further extended :)

>
>> PS: And I am unsure why would the LV claim there's no client-server
>> architecture in such RAD tools if all database engines (but SQLite)
>> have always been client-server. Maybe it's about the app and GUI on
>> the server side?
>>
> A good, easy to use front-end (like Kexi may become or MS Access sort
> of is) would encourage more use of databases.
>
> I've been searching for a decent replacement for MS Access for ages
> and still haven't found one.
>
> My fundamental requirement is soemthing like Access' table view that
> allows very simple creation and updating of a table.  I've yet to find
> anything.

Yes, sometimes I am looking into ways to make Kexi even simpler to
use, so if user wants it - it can be in the middle between a
spreadsheet and a db creation app. Ad-hoc creating table designs
(while entering the data) is one of the things, quite hard to
implement though. Interesting, after the idea came MSA (maybe 2003?)
added similar feature.

But before it's reality we probably need to get reliable alter-table
feature to work.


What exact features of simple table creation do you mean?

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