Hi, all.
Daft question:
Can anyone help with any ideas about databases? Specifically, we need
something intermediate between the "looks like a spreadsheet" and the
mega-fully-featured SQL systems. I haven't had much time to play with the
SQL systems on SuSE to figure how well they will suit (so I'm asking
advice).
Having been raised on standalone Image, dBase, Paradox etc. systems, the
SQL server-client architecture is a bit of a mystery to me, yet.
Reasons:
Our pupils are currently using Access - which has a very gentle learning
curve from first contact, and rapid development time to first database. The
educational requirements are that the database table-set is created
entirely by the user, and the Windows optimum has been Access. I would like
to find a Linux equivalent.
This lies as our current sticking-point to migration to Linux next summer,
and I would like to be able to get things moving soon.
Thanks, in advance,
Paul.
Paul P. Ellison,
Information and Communications Technology Manager
Edgehill College, Devon