Good, Free DBMS solution

Xelene · 19 Apr 2011 at 22:31

robotCocks said:
yes, it does.

No, it doesn't. There's some GUI crap available, but it's UNUSABLE by average people.

You can bind OpenOffice to it as a datasource, but it doesn't work very well.

rexehuk · 26 Apr 2011 at 09:21

Ideally I would have wanted to just make an access database on the managers box... then code with VBA and make all the queries for her, unfortunately the fools don't seem to have an access license!

Basically it's gone from an easy RAD approach to something much more complex and out of my comfort zone... maybe I can persuade them to stop being cheap and grab a single / 3 user license.

robotSocks · 26 Apr 2011 at 11:47

sldsmkd said:
No, it doesn't. There's some GUI crap available, but it's UNUSABLE by average people.

are you stupid or something mate?

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.2.html

i'm using this tool right now at work to administrate one of our product databases

or perhaps I'm just seeing things? :rolleyes:

robotSocks · 26 Apr 2011 at 11:49

rexehuk said:
Ideally I would have wanted to just make an access database on the managers box... then code with VBA and make all the queries for her, unfortunately the fools don't seem to have an access license!

Basically it's gone from an easy RAD approach to something much more complex and out of my comfort zone... maybe I can persuade them to stop being cheap and grab a single / 3 user license.

can you please tell me why you're not considering MySQL? if it's good enough for Amazon to host a dedicated MySQL cloud database service then I'm fairly sure it's good enough to be used for a small in-house application...

uv · 26 Apr 2011 at 12:31

robotCocks said:
are you stupid or something mate?

All of your posts recently have been pretty aggro :/

rexehuk · 26 Apr 2011 at 18:15

robotCocks said:
are you stupid or something mate?

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.2.html

i'm using this tool right now at work to administrate one of our product databases

or perhaps I'm just seeing things?

Because the end users are a bunch of ****ing tools who know nothing about computers? Just the other day I had to show a manager of 7 years there how to map a network drive...

Needs to be COMPLETELY transparent, and I don't have a commercial license to produce software for them for a front end to talk with the DB. On top of that the thing is being designed in my OWN time for no extra payment from the firm... so I don't want to sink a few hundred hours into it.

I need to:

Gather requirements
Plan
Design
Test
Implement

and produce all documentation and use cases for the end users to make sure the system doesn't go to **** once I leave. So that's basically writing an entire administration manual as well as a user manual.

robotSocks · 26 Apr 2011 at 19:55

mate you can write a MySQL database app with a VB.Net front-end in a matter of days, and you don't need any commercial licences to do so

you could build it with VB Express 2010 which is a free IDE in itself

it won't cost you anything other than your time

there is a wizard which will build the majority of a simple bare-bones app for you automatically