[Valentina-studio] VStudio a4 Comments

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 6/18/03 23:57, Alex Lim at lxlim at pacific.net.sg wrote:

Hi Alex,

> Hi there,
> 
> Just got hold of VStudio. My background is in using filemaker. Looking
> at alternative possibilities. Valentina does look very attractive
> option. Could any of you point me to the design objectives of VStudio?

White paper? Jochen?

> Is it meant for general consumption? Like a filemaker killer?

YES and YES.

> Or is it meant to as a DBMS for DBAs with no niceties for interfacing with the
> users.

Vstudio must be for end-user.

> Looking at Vstudio current interface, I was wondering if an outline
> view is more effective and compact in representing
> Connections:Database:Table:Field. Of course if we have lots of Tables
> with lots of Fields then it does make for a long listing.

What you mean with outline view?

> Will you have a table view (spreadsheet style) to populate with records
> from SQL queries?

Yes of course, as well as UML based diagrams of db structure,
Layouts editors, report generators, procedure editors, ...

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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