Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

On 5/18/2016 11:05 AM, Pierre Chevalier Géologue wrote:
>
> Yes, that's it, in a way.  Although designing forms is not what I 
> would call AD (application development)...
> When you look back at dBase III or IV, the text user interface which 
> allowed to interact with the data was very simple, and efficient. 
> Designing forms (I didn't do much of these, and I can't remember well) 
> was quite straightforward, and was not at all what I would call an 
> "application development".  The latter would be made by using clipper, 
> most often.


MS Access is all about forms, reports, and data, with visualbasic macros 
for data manipulation.



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