Re: Choice of database for small apps
Thank you Michael, you have been most helpful. I am a hobby programmer, that is I program as a hobby in several different languages. I sold to over 950 doctors and hospitals my Clipper app that was ported to Harbour using the Minigui program. I just took it off the market because sales went flat and Obamacare has forced many of my clients to merge with hospitals etc.
I had a couple of POS apps that i did in Visual FoxPro and one in Alpha5. I want to expand the POS apps to use mobile models. I liked using AA with the Access db because the Access db is just a file that I can put anywhere. For the heck of it I made the sample mobile app where you took a photo with your mobile device and stored it in an Access db. I had a room full of different Cell phones, a Chrome book, and my Google TV. The iPhones, android phones, and iPads all were taking pictures, and all of the devices were showing all the photos when refreshed. The data was on my laptop. it amazed me to see IOS, Windows, and Linux all working together. Fun stuff.
I have a used book store customer that inherited an Access POS app when she bought the book store 8 years ago. The Access app has run flawlessly day in and day out. I tried to build an Alpha app to "modernize" her app on new computers, but it was so slow, she continued with the Access app. I want to try AA with mariaDB to see if i can't outdo her Access app. And add iPads into her mix.
Thank you Michael, you have been most helpful. I am a hobby programmer, that is I program as a hobby in several different languages. I sold to over 950 doctors and hospitals my Clipper app that was ported to Harbour using the Minigui program. I just took it off the market because sales went flat and Obamacare has forced many of my clients to merge with hospitals etc.
I had a couple of POS apps that i did in Visual FoxPro and one in Alpha5. I want to expand the POS apps to use mobile models. I liked using AA with the Access db because the Access db is just a file that I can put anywhere. For the heck of it I made the sample mobile app where you took a photo with your mobile device and stored it in an Access db. I had a room full of different Cell phones, a Chrome book, and my Google TV. The iPhones, android phones, and iPads all were taking pictures, and all of the devices were showing all the photos when refreshed. The data was on my laptop. it amazed me to see IOS, Windows, and Linux all working together. Fun stuff.
I have a used book store customer that inherited an Access POS app when she bought the book store 8 years ago. The Access app has run flawlessly day in and day out. I tried to build an Alpha app to "modernize" her app on new computers, but it was so slow, she continued with the Access app. I want to try AA with mariaDB to see if i can't outdo her Access app. And add iPads into her mix.
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