Access is a bad database but it dose have 2 tings going for it 1. easy of use 2. can meet the exam boards requirements for the database aspect Dave Selby (B.Sc. Hons Dunelm) Network manager St Leonards R C Comprehensive School Tel: 0191 3755204 Fax: 0191 3755248 E-mail: IT@st-leonards.durham.sch.uk Web Site: www.st-leonards.durham.sch.uk Any one else remember the good days when pupils where encouraged to thing outside the box! -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dyer [mailto:dyert@xdevelopment.co.uk] Sent: 07 January 2005 12:26 To: David Selby Cc: ian.lynch@zmsl.com; 'SuSe' Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] BETT Rekall, if I correctly recall, (haha) has both a Linux and Windows version. The substantial problem with MS Access, has to be that it isn't actually very strong when it comes to database theory. Thomas Dyer Xdevelopment llp On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, David Selby wrote:
Well the database engine that is used I am not to bothered with its get a front end looking and feeling similar to access as this meens the
who have MS at home can still but in to practise what they have been shown in school.
Dave
Any one else remember the good days when pupils where encouraged to thing outside the box! -----Original Message----- From: Ian Lynch [mailto:ian.lynch@zmsl.com] Sent: 07 January 2005 11:11 To: Thomas Dyer Cc: David Selby; 'SuSe' Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] BETT
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:55, Thomas Dyer wrote:
David,
I'd suggest that Rekall is actually a better "database" teaching tool
students than
MS Access, and might fit with the requirements of the AS / A2 courses.
I've done quite a lot of testing of it with a highly customised linux distro (based loosely on SuSE 9.2) which we're using for some office desktop installations.
Alternatively, OpenOffice 1.9x has some interesting ideas at "database" in the latest beta, which show some promise.
HSQLDB (Java based) and SQLite have both been discussed. HSQLDB is the choice of Sun engineers because it requires least work. Some FLOSS purists don't like Java too much. These both have potential as Access replacements but you can still connect to pretty much most Database servers. At OpenOffice.org we like to provide choice and flexinility :-)
From a "commercial" point of view, I'm interested in finding out how
many
schools are actually currently rolling out Linux onto their desktops.
Certainly an increasing number but its difficult to say exactly how many and its often experiments and partial implementation.
-- Ian Lynch Education lead OpenOffice.org community