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Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office

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Yeah,
I downloaded 'BASE' . . .

Having used Access for years (possibly decades) both as an 'end user' and in developing applications for my job use . . .

And Access also makes use of 'Visual BASIC' . . meaning any application code that can be done in BASIC could be 'rear-ended' into an Access form or report.

Access was (and I assume still is) VERY Powerful.

Access could also be used as a 'front end application' to a Sequel Server DataBase.

But, being retired now. I really only have one application in Access I 'need' to run. And I have an old XP machine to run an old Office Suite and it gets that job done.

Having downloaded BASE . . . And installing it . . . And never doing anything with it since . . .

Anyway.
Good Night Sir.

Zim.




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Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office
By: Fiz
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Mon, 21 Nov 22 1:38 AM
Msg. 37629 of 58662

Hi Zim,

I just searched for infomation about this:

"The bottom line is that there is only really one free alternative to Microsoft Access in database management that offers roughly the same possibilities: LibreOffice/OpenOffice Base. But even with Base, you have to accept that there will be a few drawbacks compared to MS Access, especially regarding the database’s request possibilities and the general functional range. In addition, MS Access appears to be more stable and reliable."

So...not as good as Access, but it attempts to fill that space. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more development attention.

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