[kwlug-disc] Personal Database Software
William Park
opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Sun May 12 09:21:15 EDT 2024
There is/was Firefox add-on for Sqlite. So, you can browse the local
Sqlite file from your Firefox. But, not sure about remote file, or data
entry.
On 2024-05-12 00:37, Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote:
> I've come across the need for software that I think used to be common,
> but seems to have stagnated (i.e., not survived the jump to multi-device
> or multi-users): Personal Database Software.
>
> Baseically like Microsoft Access, or LibreOffice Base: Define a Table
> (i.e. "Albums"), define fields/layout a form ("Title", "Artist", etc),
> and then you can start adding entries, searching, browsing, etc. Easy
> enough for a user without having to know SQL, or any scripting languages.
>
> If it was just me, I could theoretically just use LibreOffice Base (or
> postgres directly, I guess). However, that doesn't really work well in
> either the multi-device world (look things up from my phone while away
> from home), or multi-user world (share tables with other people)
>
> It goes without saying that there's a *strong* preference for
> self-hosted open source solutions.
>
> I figured there'd be some niche project that I just haven't come across,
> but I'm really not finding anything.
>
>
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