Database Lessons

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I know what you are saying. “Ya, right!”

However, I am serious. My main resolution is to post more often on databaselessons.com.

I will start with a serious of postings about queries.

If you have been at the MS Access game for a while, you may find most of these query postings too simple. Well, this site is for people that are just shedding the pure wizard approach to MS Access, and so you may be right.

As always, please leave comments if you have a good one.

Thanks for reading.

Richard “Manxman” Killey

The open source alternatives to MS Access that I have looked at over the years did not match my favourite database’s full set of features.

A new offering is Kexi, which is a Free/Libre and Open-Source integrated data management application. Kexi is a long awaited Open Source competitor for products like Microsoft Access. Kexi can be used for creating database schemas, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data. All database objects – tables, queries and forms – are stored in the relational database, making it easy to share data and design.

Unfortunately, although Python and Ruby programming languages are supported (beta stage) and JavaScript support is in development, scripting is not yet available on the Windows version.

I do not think I could live without VBA. It makes Access what it is for me. Here is a link to the scripting info for Kexi.

For now, I have to sit in the wings, until the scripting is ported to the Windows version of Kexi.

Continuing with my series about using Access on a PC to feed a MySQL database on the web! Read part 3 here. This part describes the structure of the 2 databases involved. One is an MS Access database on a local PC. The other is a MySQL database on a webserver.

Remember that this method was created for websites that exist on servers that do NOT allow remote MySQL connections. Some servers do allow the remote connections, which simplifies the whole process.

I have finally resumed my series about using Access on a PC to feed a MySQL database on the web! Read part 2 here. This part describes the purpose of the database and describes 2 of the websites that get fed by this little homegrown system.

Remember that this method was created for websites that exist on servers that do NOT allow remote MySQL connections. Some servers do allow the remote connections, which simplifies the whole process.

I sent out a new article today. First one in months. I have the same 24 hours as everyone else, but …

No, I am not going to take the easy way out with an excuse.

Anyhow. Received 2 comments. One via the website and one via email. I appreciate both comments, even though they both were against me (at least a little!). The website comment was in regards to this posting about php and mysql. If you visit the posting you can read the comment.

My response? What can I say? I let my subscribers down. Read more »