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So how do you build a desktop database with a staff user interface for a small business running on a couple of Windows desktops?
by cutler 4y ago
So how do you build a desktop database with a staff user interface for a small business running on a couple of Windows desktops?
- anthk 4y agoLazarus + SQLite. Problem solved.
- snapcaster 4y agoWhy won't you accept this isn't a workable solution for the vast majority of people? Comments like this give me a brief moment of wanting every engineer in tech (me included) to be laid off and replaced with excel people
- bena 4y agoWhy isn't it? If your situation has reached the point where Excel is no longer a workable solution, you need a full application. I've never seen an Access application that didn't grow to a point where it wasn't a glitchy mess requiring a rewrite as a full stand-alone application. So you might as well skip that step and go straight to the stand-alone application. It's an unnecessary bridge.
- snapcaster 4y agoYou understand that the people who are making Excel and Access apps aren't professional software developers right?
- namaria 4y ago"Why don't everyone drive the same car as me? Dress the same as me? Read the same books, watch the same series, talk to the same people? It's clearly working great for me! Buncha rubes!"
- bena 4y agoIf you're ok with your data being duplicated in multiple files, you're ok with Excel. If you want your data centralized, with the application being a portal to that data, you use a database with a frontend built in your choice of language.