Re: Some advice need after a 20 year gap after Ingres/GUIs

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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