Glom, ReKall or Other

[Kristian Rink]

Don;


Am Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:40:51 -0400
schrieb "Don Parris" <parrisdc at gmail.com>:

> choice of Glom, Rekall, or Mergeant.  I know Glom is GNOME-Centric,
> and Rekall is KDE-Centric.  If you have experience with these, I
> would like to know which you prefer and why.

For maintaineance issues and issuing SQL queries quickly, usually I end
up playing around with pgAdmin3 ( http://pgadmin.org/ ) which is a
pretty fast way of interacting with the database and which is focused
on being used with PostgreSQL (as the name implies).




> The DB will store data from a research project I'm working on.  I
> mainly want to be able to perform some statistical analysis and
> produce reports that I can stand to look at.  I may have some
> interest in producing the end results in HTML, ODF, or PDF.  

If ReKall is able of doing those things, you should probably stick with
it - running it in a GNOME environment shouldn't be too much of a
problem. However, in most cases you are likely to use some other tools
to do that job - like, extracting data using a scripting language (or
Java and JDBC which rocks), pushing the results into some XML file and
building PDF or HTML or whatever out of that using XSL or FOP or
something the like.


Cheers,
Kris



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