On Thu, 13 May 2010 20:28:15 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>> But I do agree that oobase isn't the best piece of software - I've used
>> it quite a bit for accessing things like Oracle tables, and the setup
>> could be a lot smoother.  Supports ODBC and JDBC, though, so that's
>> something.
> 
> Oracle is a nice product, but if you just want to store your phonebook
> or your CD collection, it's way way overkill. I will say one thing about
> MS Access: It may be an utterly crap DB engine, but if all you want to
> do is store and lookup a little bit of data, it's the most lightweight
> thing I've seen. You get the DB engine and a nice front-end and a design
> tool, all in one. It's not very *good*, but for small things it's
> right-sized.

Well, yeah - I'd be more inclined to use MySQL, but some apps on Linux to 
do things like tracking a CD collection use SQLite on the backend (heck, 
my newsreader uses it).

Jim

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