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From: mark@petsd.UUCP (Mark Bueide)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Database program for the Amiga
Message-ID: <1623@petsd.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 17:29:23 GMT
Reply-To: mark@petsd.UUCP (Mark J. Bueide)
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My father just upgraded his home computer from a TRS-80 Model 3 to
an Amiga 2000. One of the things he always used his trash-80 for
was to keep a fairly extensive database of bills, insurance claims, etc.
He has been using the Radio Shack database program (Profile+ ?).

With the Amiga he got The Works, which supposedly has some kind of 
database facility. The problem with this is that apparently this
software will allow only the most rudimentary kind of report to be
generated (you can dump out all of the db records, perhaps sorted 
by a key). My father would like to be able to generate
reports based on different queries. 

I may be giving The Works a bum rap. I haven't looked at The Works yet
and my father hasn't really used it much, but the people at the store
where my father bought the computer feel that its database capabilities
are pretty limited.

The question is this: Is there a good quality database product for the
Amiga? Or, should my father get a bridgeboard and buy some IBM PC product?