[kwlug-disc] Personal Database Software

Mikalai Birukou mb at 3nsoft.com
Sun May 12 19:09:30 EDT 2024


On 2024-05-12 09:21, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 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.

And an sqlitebrowser: https://sqlitebrowser.org/

Is at least in Mint. I use it sometimes, but forgot to mention.

> 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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