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- From: baechler@liasun7.epfl.ch (Emmanuel Baechler)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for a USABLE database
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:22:37 GMT
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- In article <28543@goofy.Apple.COM>, rule@apple.com (Jeff Rule) writes:
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- |> This is generally true of any character-cell based query tool. What you are
- |> longing for is a GUI interface to the database.
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- You are definitely right.
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- |> 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
- |> [...]
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- Thanks for the information and sorry for the delay of my answer.
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