Thread: Good database program

Originally Posted by Omaroo

... and you guys are trying to push him down an Access or xxSQL/Oracle route?

Mick - if you want a simple GUI-driven tool that is reasonably configurable I'd stay with FileMaker and run the web publisher extension to get to it via the web. Otherwise you're going to be mucking around in higher-end developer stuff. How good are you at understanding relational database theory and how that couples to a scripted server environment like PHP or .ASP/.NET?

Very much appreciate everyone's input but I have to agree with Omaroo on this one..........I am relatively computer literate but start talking "relational database theory and how that couples to a scripted server environment like PHP or .ASP/.NET" and you loose me.

Have played around with the file maker pro trial version today and this will probably fulfill my needs once I configure it to suit and find a cheaper version of it somewhere.......anyone know where I can get it at a reasonable price

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no, gone, only has server on it now :P

no, still there :P need bloody glasses.....

Onya Mick. Filemaker is a good bit of kit that is well under-rated by some. Even though we develop our own stuff using the high-end tools under Solaris and other 'nix flavours, I still use FileMaker to actually modell the end result in first. It's quick and gives us a good understanding of how a project will finally hang together. Works a treat!

Have you tried OpenOffice. It comes with a database program and the whole suite is free. I regularly use the writer part of the suite but dont know anything about/ have no use for a data base so cant comment on that.

Ian

I was going to say oracle 10G is way over his needs. We use Oracle 9 at the moment and are about to switch to 10G. Our interfac is a mixture of proprietor built, inhouse delphi and SQL all running through citrix. I'm the only production guy left in the project so i'm the developer, first tester and maintenance guy all in one .

We are also looking into a web interface for down the track.

Access is fairly easy and capable for small simple databassess. Gets very messy over the years if diferent people maintain it. I havn't played with the others mentioned but have even seen people using excell with a jave front end.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

it is true about geeks,,

thats jokes as old as inc,,,


ready to go Mark?

i'm not sure the joke is THAT old













.... just kidding Inc


Yes Pedro.. just about ready... the kids are counting the hours!.... did you know there are only 202 hours to go .... I suspect that will get annoying by the time they get below 50....

Mark

Mick,
It sounds like you don't need anything too complicated.
I've played with various database programs, and some of them are very complex.

Your request does not seem too deep, so maybe something simple like Excel will do the job.
You'd be surprised how powerful it can be.

Originally Posted by Ralf_the_RR

so maybe something simple like Excel will do the job.
You'd be surprised how powerful it can be.

Hey Ralph, I love Excel and use it tons for various work applications but the one thing I am specifically looking for from a program, are fields where I can input dates and then on these dates, customer records will be highlighted. EG. when I open the program each morning, it will give me a list of people to contact that day. Outlook obviously does this but I would have to manually go into each day and type a whole bunch of customer info. One date on a customer file is all I want to type, plus some notes etc but they need to be on the customers file.

I would also like to search individual fields and be the program be able to return customer files info for that field as I type it in. I know Filemaker Pro does this (or at least did when I used it) but if excel can do something similar then I am all over it as I know Excel pretty well............other than the techical coding side that is!

Cheers again, Mick