On 08/06/11 10:56 AM, Always Learning wrote:
Never ever used Access or other parametrised databases. Always prefer to design, write and implement my own - they are much better and 100% user friendly too :-)
Access isn't really a database (it uses the Jet database which implements a subset of SQL), rather, its a application development system for creating forms+reports based apps, with VBasic business logic. Access applications can use 'real' database servers, such as postgresql, mysql, oracle, etc.
OpenOffice Base is very much the same sort of thing, but without any hint of compatibility.