On 4/10/24 03:11, John Bateson wrote:
Good morning,
The end of my working life was taken up with developing and supporting a
Scientific Research establishment near Warrington in the UK. I had a
small team of programmer who did an excellent job for me and with me.
The software was Ingres and the main program supporting user
administration on a Synchrotron was built under OpenROAD with other
developments around the on-site stores and finance using ABF since the
stores workers found this much faster than a GUI! There was also some
web development use .Net practises.
This was a quite complex system in the end with nearly 200 tables.
We ended up using Ingres Replicator with the intention of running it
from two sites 180 miles apart – at the time it was a pile of
*notquitegoodenough*! This was early this century so Actian may have
made some improvements since then…
So much for the background to establish that I am not a complete newbie,
just out of the loop for a while.
*Using Postgres and PGAdmin -4*.
So, 20 years later I am developing, (unpaid) a new project for some
historic railways in the UK and linking these to the development and
design of a range of kits for those interested in model railways. This
is getting towards 20 tables so far.
What I really need is a recommendation for the current and best practice
for an easy GUI that will allow me to press a button without opening up
PGAdmin or a black screen, i.e. the traditional .EXE file I can put on a
button on the screen on the screen on a Windows 11 based system.
With Postgres or other similar client-server database there will be a
need to set up the database server somewhere first, before you get to
the GUI interface part.
Are you planning on a single instance of Postgres that folks log in to
from multiple locations?
Or do want a stand alone setup that each user has on their machine?
While my programming history goes back to MDBS-4 and beyond I know I
have some catching up to do and while not a complete newbie, need
something I can work on quickly and intuitively and inexpensively!
So, recommendation and possibly some consensus would be very much
appreciated.
And apologies if I have taken up too much of your time or have placed
this in the wrong forum.
John
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Adrian Klaver
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