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I'd have to say Access is the closest. MS Access is one of the easiest programs to use to make an app with a front end, dB, reporting, and SQL all in one packag
by account-5 3y ago
I'd have to say Access is the closest. MS Access is one of the easiest programs to use to make an app with a front end, dB, reporting, and SQL all in one package.
Prototyping for a dB backed app is extremely easy.
I'm fully aware of all it's drawbacks, but there's still nothing like it available today.
- steve1977 3y agoFileMaker maybe. But yeah, both tools are great for in-house applications in my experience. It’s quite easy to provide actually useful features very quickly. It might not win you design awards, but often that’s not a problem in reality. I’d rather have an inventory that is correct but maybe looks a bit homegrown than one that looks like it has been designed by Jony Ive but is wrong for example.
- account-5 3y agoI'm not a professional developer and have seen my share of badly designed Access applications created by people who don't understand normalisation, so get the bad rep Access gets in this respect. But I've created a couple of simple apps for specific tasks that work excellent for their usecase. I can't imagine there being a simpler way of doing them with other tech stacks.
- steve1977 3y agoHey we’re in the age of document databases and NoSQL, normalization is for boomers anyway ;)
- MichaelZuo 3y agoI remember using Access to make simple internal enterprise apps in 2017, is that no longer a thing?