![]() ![]() Do any of you Mac users have experience doing something similar limited to to what campitel actually wants, using FileMaker Pro Advanced or FileMaker Pro Server over a LAN or WAN-even though there's no "real SQL backend (with properly-designed databases), and a web interface"? I feel these posters are urging campitel to unnecessarily "go whole hog"-without any reported programming experience other than a bit of Visual Basic back in 2007–2008. ![]() Making "production" database applications is serious business. Anything else is a half-measure that will bite you in the ass.Įither learn how to do this stuff, hire somebody to do it for you, or find some kind of free and/or open-source solution that already does what you want. You *want* a real SQL backend (with properly-designed databases), and a web interface. ![]() But the fact is, if you want to create a *real* database application, there aren't any shortcuts. The first reaction to my post was from Frennzy:īased on 17 years of personal use, I'd suggest Claris FileMaker.įilemaker is better than Access, probably. (I'm not copying my 4.5-paragraph post here you can find it on the first page of that thread.) I then pointed out that I've no personal experience with multi-user FileMaker databases, but cited an Australian consultant who has made a business of setting up and monitoring FileMaker Pro Server databases for Windows-using customers at their sites. I summarized my own 16 years experience with a single-user FileMaker Pro database with referential integrity I created for Mac in 2004. I suggested using FileMaker Pro for Windows. I have no idea how to do that and the security implications make my head hurt. Is there a way to make this work? Are there other solutions I should consider? Writing a web front end to a MySQL DB is not an option. I want someone else to be able to use it too, and they are not in the same building with me. Pretty basic stuff, but something a bit more structured than a spreadsheet would provide. It would have a few tables with some links between them enforcing referential integrity. It will likely hold a few thousand, or maybe one day, a few tens of thousands of records. I would like to use Microsoft Access for a small database.
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