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Decomposed > Also, if you think learning a database is comparable in difficulty to learning Excel or Word, think again. Access was *MUCH* harder.


Access . . . With the help of a 'how - to' book is really not that difficult. To make a simple un-complicated data base. A Table to store data, queries to fetch data back out, Forms to display the data or Reports to print the data out.

Excel - Spreadsheets. Again, for simple applications not that difficult. But, I have seen some truly complicated spreadsheet 'applications' doing some sophisticated computations. And I'm pretty sure Visual Basic can be incorporated into an Excel spreadsheet - opening a whole new universe of strange, weird, wonderful and difficult things.

But, yeah, Access is more difficult than Excel.

I'll say this for Microsoft. Their 'Sequel Server' database stuff is incredibly powerful. And the fact that Access can be used as a front end into it only adds to the power and sophistication.

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Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office
By: Decomposed
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Mon, 21 Nov 22 8:53 AM
Msg. 37633 of 60008

fizzy and Zimbler0:

Re: “As for BASE . . . I really don't have a need for it.”
I learned Access this year. I became "good enough" anyway to create the media database I needed. I also wrote and inserted a small Visual Basic script to check, whenever I entered a new book title, whether it's already in the system. If found, the script tells me how many times it was found so I can tag the current one as being, for instance, copy #4. It works like a charm.

The point is, I'd have majorly struggled with this small database if I hadn't bought a really good text that walked me, a novice, through the construction of something similar. In fact, it was a FOR DUMMIES book - of which I'm now a huge fan.

Good luck finding "really good texts" for BASE. I doubt they exist.

Also, if you think learning a database is comparable in difficulty to learning Excel or Word, think again. Access was *MUCH* harder.






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