free software alternative to Access

[Dan Jenkins]

Bill Sconce wrote:
> To which I'd add something (something which I'd have
> overlooked had not Guy Pardoe and Ted Roche just made it the
> subject of last week's excellent MonadLUG meeting):
> 
> phpMyAdmin http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/
> 
> It is billed as an administration tool (which is what it is,
> of course), but "admin" could mean "prototyping" or "rapid
> app development".  If you already know what you want to do
> phpMyAdmin provides data entry forms, SQL query construction,
> and a whole lot more, all right out of the box.
> 
> Certainly not a "replacement" for Access, but a valuable tool
> - and for some (knowledgeable) folks it could do the job of
> getting a new app rolling.

I second this. I had a project a couple of years back for a
heavily data-driven web site. The client was very anxious to get
started entering data long before I had the user interface done.
So, I provided them access via phpMyAdmin to their database.
They have been happily using it since then. I never even needed
to create the user interface. It works quite well. It's not a 
finely polished front end, but perfectly adequate for data entry 
and browsing the data.

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