On Thursday 29 May 2003 15:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Donn Washburn wrote:
A nice frontend for MySQL is phpMyAdmin. easy to setup and admin.
AFAICT, though, none of the web-based SQL front ends offer anything like decent reporting tools for print. They are ideal for on-screen work, but not for output for clients.
What I need is something like FileMaker, Datapower or even Access -
You got that right!!!!!! If they'd only port FileMaker!!!
something that can create easy-to-use, flexible forms and produce attractive, businesslike reports. I've been surprised that there is so little middle-level database stuff for linux. There are the high-power SQL back ends, and powerful command-line or web-based front ends, but little that's actually sat down and tried to implement a user-based database rather than a developer-based one.
Thanks for the pointers so far - I'll look into them. Any other ideas?
This has been one of my complaints, as all I, and I suspect the majority of users want and need, is a FileMaker for Linux, and there's NOTHING available, not even on the horizon.
Fred
What about the database coming along in the KOffice suite? It's called Kexi and may prove to be what we all are looking for there. I haven't played much and the few times I have trying to get it to use their experimental base, cql, it crashes on me with a Sig6. I have yet to try it with MySQL as a base yet, but you might want to give it a look. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...