OT: give advice to MSAccess user

[Johnathan Bailes]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:45:12 -0500, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:14, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > All advice received - let's look at postgreSQL instead. From the links
> > people have posted the most interesting looks like
> > http://www.hipergate.org/ which is a 'customer relationship
> > manager' (urgg!)
> >
> > It looks very powerful and developed - however it's way overkill for
> > what I want. I wouldn't mine writing my own front end- except I can't
> > and have trouble believing that someone else hasn't made one as a simple
> > 'contact database' with basic functions like making labels for envelopes
> > - I start to wonder if I might be going for overkill even talking about
> > using a database. Maybe I should just stick to a spreadsheet?
> >
> > Duncan
> 
> Go to http://sourceforge.net and put membership in the search field.
> There appear to be a large number of membership database projects,
> however only the first handful appear to have any activity.
> Unfortunately most appear to be based on mysql.  But those projects may
> be more on the scale of what you are looking for.
> 

There is a project called Glom which uses postgressql as its backend.  

It is kind of database design program that works a lot like File Maker
Pro but looks pretty easy to use like Access in a sense for detailing
out basic dbs.

http://www.glom.org/

Btw, I have not used this thing so YMMV.