Re: Database events
Re: Database events
- Subject: Re: Database events
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:42:22 +0000
On 08/01/2015 16:13, Bruce Robertson wrote:
Sad nonsense.
Oh please. I cannot abide ignorant fanboyism: unless you've also used a
decent RDBMS and can tell us at minimum what 'normalization', 'left
join', and 'relational integrity' mean, you are utterly unfit to
lecturing anyone on the subject.
FMP is the Dunning-Kruger of databases. I was using it in 2000; since
then I've also worked with MySQL, Postgres, and SQLServer. I am hardly
an expert in relational database design and management, and even I can
tell that FMP is a sack of shit compared to the rest of them. FMP's
designers wouldn't know Codd from the hole in a ground, and unless it's
gained a 'do SQL' command since I last used it then its AppleScript
interface is an absolute farce. (Last time I used it was when the
section on FMP for the Apress AppleScript book. Without ability to join,
AppleScript's 'whose' clauses are useless for anything non-trivial. And
scripting FMP's Find forms is beyond hideous.)
FileMaker should've retired FMP years ago and built a nice GUI interface
and installer package for Postgres instead; they'd have had an
infinitely better product at the fraction of the cost. And Apple dropped
a *huge* opportunity by not calling iWork's Numbers application "Tables"
instead, and making it a end user-friendly spreadsheet-database hybrid
just as Pages combined end user-oriented word processing and DTP
features to great effect.
Just because the Mac platform lacks personal database apps doesn't make
FMP a _good_ solution - merely the only option, other than mangling
Excel, for those sufficiently desperate [1]. And for professional-level
work it should *not* be touched with a bargepole.
has
[1] FWIW, OpenOffice does include a personal database system ('Base')
too, though I've never used OpenOffice for anything other than word
processing. And given how klunky OpenOffice is in general, I'm leery to
make any recommendations myself.
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