[PLUG] MS Access Equivalent

Robby Russell robby at planetargon.com
Wed Sep 3 14:57:02 UTC 2003


Matt Alexander wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 16:20, Holger Stephan wrote:
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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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>Not exactly, but you can use OpenOffice, ODBC, and a database such as
>MySQL to achieve similar results:
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>http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf
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There are other projects for Gnome and KDe that allow you to create 
forms for PostgreSQL/MySQL/etc databases...just like you can in Access.  
Don't recall the names at the moment, but I was trying the kde one 
recently. Seemed pretty decent for general usage.





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