Re: Database events
Re: Database events
- Subject: Re: Database events
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 07:14:00 -0800
Same as it ever was from Has.
Sad, presumptuous nonsense.
Can. Won't engage.
Blather on fiercely do.
Bruce
On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:42 AM, has <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/01/2015 16:13, Bruce Robertson wrote:
>> Sad nonsense.
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> [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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