<BR><BR><B><I>David Segall <david@segall.net></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><BR>Dave Phillips wrote:<BR>> Um okay.<BR>Perhaps my reply was a bit too cryptic. I find Microsoft Access and <BR>OpenOffice Base the best database front ends around. They can be used <BR>with any database, they have a simple spreadsheet interface to a single <BR>table or the result of a complex query. The spreadsheet can be used to <BR>cut and paste repetitive data and change, insert or delete data from the <BR>database. They will compose SQL statements from an interface that anyone <BR>can use that would otherwise require a database expert. They also have a <BR>simple, inbuilt programming language to automate frequently used or more <BR>complex tasks.<BR><BR>If the dollar signs in your response were a protest against my use of <BR>Microsoft software then they should also appear in My$ql.<BR><BR>If
you believe that the task of connecting Access to an ODBC database is <BR>too trivial to warrant a HOWTO you may be right but I posted it because <BR>I believe that there are many MythTV users who have not thought of using <BR>Access and/or are not familiar with ODBC.<BR><BR>I would like to know exactly what you didn't get and why the um in your OK.<BR>> <BR>> */David Segall <DAVID@SEGALL.NET>/* wrote:<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <div>My "um okay" was a too quick response to your own quick response. ;-)</div> <div>The $ signs were just a feeble protest against Microsoft's empire, but at least MySql is free for us still. (isn't it?)</div> <div>Like I said in a later post I did think it was a good wiki and you are right in that alot of people wouldn't have been aware of the ability.</div> <div>It just wasn't what I expected, sorry to have looked like I was insulting you or your work.</div> <div>I also reread my first post and I seemed to
have somehow missed a couple of words. I didn't mean it as a challenge.</div> <div>And with that I will probably stop responding to this as it isn't really relevant to myth anymore.</div> <div>Dave</div><p> 
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