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Creating database applications with wizards and graphic editors – without SQL and programming – that's what the LibreOffice program Base, modeled after Microsoft Access, is all about.
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Creating database applications with wizards and graphic editors – without SQL and programming – that's what the LibreOffice program Base, modeled after Microsoft Access, is all about.
With Access, Microsoft created a program that hid SQL databases (see the "Relational Databases" box) behind a graphical user interface. With this approach, SQL queries and data entry forms are easily created using mouse clicks without users' having to know anything about programming.
LibreOffice, too, recognized the potential of such software and delivered the Access-like Base (Figure 1) [1] at the end of 2005. Users accustomed to graphical user interfaces could thereby "program" their book or video databases, and smaller companies could analyze their financial data.
The core of the image database is the Images table. It contains a column ("field") for each property of a photo you want to save. Figure 2 suggests seven such data fields.
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