Quick and Dirty with Open Office Base

“Even with all of the high quality software available, sometimes
you just have to break down and write a custom application, and
usually you don’t have a lot of time to devote to it. This is the
situation I found myself in when my wife started a new business and
needed a simple means of tracking sales leads. To her credit, she
realized that she couldn’t simply use a spreadsheet and needed a
database application. So I decided that I’d see just how involved
it would be to write an application with Open Office’s database
program, known as Base.

“When I started, I’d never used Base before and even had to
install the program on both my machine and my wife’s before I could
get started. I had used Microsoft Access many years ago and I do
have a lot of experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL, so I figured
I’d be able to pick up Base in short order and be able to build a
customized application for my wife.”

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