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- From: rule@apple.com (Jeff Rule)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.ingres
- Subject: Re: Looking for a USABLE database
- Message-ID: <28544@goofy.Apple.COM>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:21:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.180503.27010@homebase.vistachrome.com> <l6v00iINN8qf@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <4352@disuns2.epfl.ch>
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- Organization: Apple Computer
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- In article <4352@disuns2.epfl.ch>, baechler@liasun7.epfl.ch (Emmanuel Baechler) writes:
- > _ The INGMENU environnemnt is a true horror to use. It is incredibly rigid
- > and poorly designed. Several menu levels do not even contain an abort
- > option (and when it exists, it is not displayed in the menu), which leaves
- > the ^C as the only option to cancel when you made the wrong choice in some
- > cases!
- >
-
- This is generally true of any character-cell based query tool. What you are longing for
- is a GUI interface to the database.
-
- > _ there's no environnment allowing "standard users", like lab people or doctors,
- > to to their searches and requests in a simple and intuitive way, what they find
- > on much simpler tools, like FileMaker on a MacIntosh
- >
- >
-
- For Ad-hoc queries there are a couple of really good tools that can be used to access a DB
- from the Mac. They will hide the ugly command line interface of the DBMS. One
- is GQL from Andyne corp. The other is Clear Access from Fairfield Software
-
- Both tools can use DAL (and a number of other middle-ware solutions SQL*NET, DBlib etc..)
- to access any number of DBMS engines (RDB, DB2, INGRES, Oracle, Sybase etc....) on
- any number of operating systems (VMS, Vax/Unix, AIX, MVS) and multiple transports
- (TCP/IP, Local Talk,Token Ring, SNA, Async etc....). What you will find is that you can plug
- and play most any DBMS with these tools. You are going to pay extra for the tools, but
- the are well worth it in user productivity and ease of use when accessing the database.
-
- -Jeff Rule
- Apple Computer/Database Resource Management
-