Re: Linux tool to open microsoft access file?

2004-12-18 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:40:42PM +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, > I just receive a file from my friend in Microsoft Access database > file format. Since there is just debian linux on my box, i wonder if > there is any linux tool that can correctly open that file? mdbto

Re: Linux tool to open microsoft access file?

2004-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 12:40 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, >I just receive a file from my friend in Microsoft Access database > file format. Since there is just debian linux on my box, i wonder if > there is any linux tool that can correctly open that file? > >

Linux tool to open microsoft access file?

2004-12-18 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I just receive a file from my friend in Microsoft Access database file format. Since there is just debian linux on my box, i wonder if there is any linux tool that can correctly open that file? Thank you for suggestions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-13 Thread Pedro M (Morphix User)
A good page about free database manage program: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DataBase I prefere PostgreSql to MySql, because is more free . And in that page there is solutions to use Access databases in Openoffice directly. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-04 Thread steef
> different companies, a government agency (Oregon Zoo), and a public > school district). That being said, they threw the kid that wrote Code > Red in jail, let's do something about those Access bastards. have rather bad experiences with microsoft access. loss of data and the li

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 20:31 -0300, Filipi Vianna wrote: > I think someone, a long time ago have wrote a book > titled Utopia, about a very good land where everething > is perfect... Perhaps the people who lives there can > write well enough to keep someone's data safe... > > > 1. well-written prog

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-03 Thread Filipi Vianna
I think someone, a long time ago have wrote a book titled Utopia, about a very good land where everething is perfect... Perhaps the people who lives there can write well enough to keep someone's data safe... 1. well-written programs Just kiding folks! ;-) I was just tryng to say that the regular ba

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 22:56 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:47:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Thus, an Access replacement should do all those things, but w/o > > being buggy. Certainly you could have figured that out > > Since my data is stored in XML, I can do ever

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:47:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Thus, an Access replacement should do all those things, but w/o > being buggy. Certainly you could have figured that out Since my data is stored in XML, I can do everything and more I can do with Access queries and reports using xslt

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:00 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 3:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems > > > like (from firsthand experience)

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:00:57PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > school district). That being said, they threw the kid that wrote Code > Red in jail, let's do something about those Access bastards. We were talking about Access clones, not Access. But Access does relational integrity. Funny stor

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 02 December 2004 3:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems > > like (from firsthand experience) a great way to lose a lot of data if > > the slightest thing

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:08 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, André Carezia wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 > > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process > to > > > be runn

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems > like (from firsthand experience) a great way to lose a lot of data if > the slightest thing goes wrong... You wouldn't use it for a 3-tiered or web app or anythi

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, André Carezia wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process to > > be running but it uses SQL. [...] > > Just curious: in which ways is this

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 17:13 -0200, André Carezia wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process to > > be running but it uses SQL. [...] > > Just curious: in which ways is this a goo

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread André Carezia
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process to > be running but it uses SQL. [...] Just curious: in which ways is this a good thing? -- André Carezia Eng. de Telecomunicações Carezia Consultor

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 01.12.2004 at 19:07 -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? I notice that the other replies are mainly geared towards suggesting a 'real' database (MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.), together with some kind of

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:07:32PM -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? > > > -- Hi Shawn, Access is 3 products: a database server, database client and a database frontend maker. the more popular database server/clients are postgres and mysql. I use mysql

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:07 -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? There are a lot of different bits of software that do some of the things that access does. Some of them try to be a little more like Access than others. Rekall does not have a built-in databas

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:14 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:07 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? > > Yes, anything is better than Access, even Excel. That is so bogus. > Go check out mysql... Why do you make such facile comm

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
I keep trying to move your replies back to the list, but you keep using Reply to Author instead of Reply to Mailing List. Please familiarize yourself with this feature. On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:23 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Well, me personally, I hated excel. lol. I'd rather use access,

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:14:06PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:07 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? > > Yes, anything is better than Access, even Excel. > > Go check out mysql... The nice thing about Access is it doesn't

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:07 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? Yes, anything is better than Access, even Excel. Go check out mysql... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/ pgpv1RgV0fpAa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Shawn McCuan
Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Keith G. Murphy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, is there any software that can interact with Access? If you're thinking about doing some lightweight work with Access from Linux, and it's OK for it to be Perl-based,

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, > > is there any software that can interact with Access? > If you're thinking about doing some lightweight work with Access from Linux, and it's OK for it to be Perl-based, yo

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-14 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 14, 2002 at 10:25:13AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020414 10:14]: > > > > Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, > > > > is there any software that can interact with Access? >

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-14 Thread Karsten Heymann
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020414 10:14]: > > Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, > > is there any software that can interact with Access? MySQL (backend) Just jokin', Karsten -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 04:17:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, | | is there any software that can interact with Access? ODBC (probably). At any rate it isn't fun. -D -- Contrary to popular belief, Unix is

Microsoft Access

2002-04-13 Thread dude
Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, is there any software that can interact with Access? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]