Re:Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
by zokier on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:13PM
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Whats wrong with Base? I haven't used it so I don't have any preconceptions about it.
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Re:Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
by tabtab on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:34PM
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Re: Whats wrong with Base?
When I first learned MS-Access, I barely had to read the manual. I could discover most functionality by clicking around. With Base, I had to constantly dig in the manual and still couldn't get it to do many ordinary CRUD idioms.
Re:Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
by blihp on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:58AM
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It's a clunky front-end with a fragile back-end. While it superficially resembles Access if you squint your eyes, it can't provide more than a small fraction of its utility currently. Too many missing/broken bits.
I spent a couple decades as a power user of the MS Office suite and find that I can generally make Calc do what I need as a spreadsheet and even Writer as a word processor. However, pretty much every time I've tried to develop a solution in Base it turns into a fight and I end up throwing up my hands and going with a different database solution. Calc doesn't even work all that well with it... and it's one of the few applications that works with it at all.