From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Feb 21 6:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4231437BDAB for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 06:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from arcadia (arcadia.i-plus.net [209.100.20.198]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA08686; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:46:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: "Matt Heckaman" , "Ryan Thompson" Cc: "FreeBSD-ISP" Subject: RE: Database software. Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:45:59 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt, You can use Access to link the tables through the MyODBC driver, and have all the bells and whistles you have now, but without the nasty jet db backend. I've got a few databases that I've done like this. A better option, might be to use PHP to build a web front end. This has the flexability that you don't need any client software other than a web browser. You could even manage your database from one of those nifty new cell phones that come bundled with a browser :) -Troy ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matt Heckaman ** Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:03 PM ** To: Ryan Thompson ** Cc: FreeBSD-ISP ** Subject: Re: Database software. ** ** ** ** On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ryan Thompson wrote: ** [...] ** : I use mySQL (available from ports) with the Windows ODBC ** driver for SQL, ** : myODBC. See ** : ** : http://www.mysql.org/download_myodbc.html ** ** Yes, I am familiar with this - but I can only export the actual ** table with ** that. Which is perfectly fine, but leaves me without a front-end. I like ** Access for it's powerful and fairly simple front-ends, my question is, is ** there anything like that for *nix. I didn't phrase my original question ** too well.. ** ** So yes, MySQL for the actual database, we all agree on that - ** but what for ** a frontend? I suppose something like php into a webpage could do ** it, but I ** really don't like the idea of being tied down to a browser, ** something built ** for being a db front-end would be better (imho) ** ** : -- ** : Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin ** : SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com ** : #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 ** ** -Matt ** ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message