Wanted - application to enter data into a database using a 'grid view'

[Joseph W Joshua]

I am the developer of sqlitebrowser, you can talk to me about adding a new
feature. 
Joshua at blueprint-group.co.ke

Regards
Joseph W Joshua
Blueprint Computers Ltd
Software Developer (C++, C#.NET, Vb.NET)
+254724276654

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Chris Green
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:37 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Wanted - application to enter data into a database using a 'grid
view'

One would have thought this would be the usual way to enter data into a
database, especially when starting a project, but I can't find
*anything* that allows me to do this remotely efficiently.

All I want is a simple data entry grid/matrix that shows me the data in the
columns and rows of a table and allows me to edit existing data or add new
data to an empty row at the bottom.  I want to be able to simply TAB along
the row, having to click on each field and then enter the data spoils the
simplicity.

I have to say that MS Access seems to have got this right, if you simply
view an Access table it appears in exactly the format I want by default.

I'd prefer this for sqlite3 but mySql or even postgresql would be OK.

Any suggestions anyone?

I've investigated most of the database *management* programs such as
sqlitebrowser and sqliteman (and similar for mySql) but they concentrate on
database administration and creating SQL queries, they really aren't very
good at simply entering data.

There's kexi and knoda but firstly they're both KDE based and I don't really
want to pull in all of KDE just to run them and I'm not sure they'll do what
I want anyway.  When I tried kexi just recently it firstly didn't know about
sqlite and secondly crashed when I tried to use it on another database.

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Chris Green

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