[PLUG] MS Access Equivalent

[Holger Stephan]

Thanks Wil and Rich!

I'll look into the stuff you suggested.

BTW, it is true that you can connect Access to a SQL back-end. Either 
through ODBC or ADO. The Access back-end is not far from being SQL 
conform and the export is pretty straight-forward. Not too much of a 
closed format there really.

It just so that you can develop little db aware business applications 
blazingly fast with Access. My business partner is on Windows and I am 
on Linux.

Holger

Wil Cooley wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 16:20, Holger Stephan wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Is there a database system similar to MS Access on Linux? Or, better, 
>>something that runs on Linux and Windows?
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>OpenOffice.org can use ODBC backends and design forms and such like
>Access.  I haven't any idea of how it compares, since I've never really
>used Access and just got it set up enough to see that it worked.
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>PgAccess is something kinda like that for Postgresql.
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>Slightly lower-level, GNUe has Forms database components.
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>I've also heard that you can connect Access as a front-end through ODBC
>to SQL servers, which will at least get your data out of a closed
>format.
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>Wil
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