On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:34:42PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
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>> These are all perception problems not real problems.  Again, if one
>> doesn't "need" flash one can do anything and everything on OpenBSD just
>> fine.  I am not claiming that OpenBSD should be used under all
>> circumstances however making blanket statements that OpenBSD can't
>> handle it is dumb.
>
> Well, I agree up to 99%. I have been looking for a simple solution to  
> remotely edit SQL database for years. Yes, solutions does exists, Open  
> Office have db to, but none allow me to process, or paste multiple  
> records at once for example.
>
> The only solution I have is to use Access with the layer ODBC on Windows  
> to do that very quickly And yes Access is strictly use as a GUI  
> interface if you want to edit content of SQL database on remote servers  
> and event if that's not as fast as it might be, doing 100K paste records  
> in that SQL DB remotely works very well and no I can't do that with Open  
> Office and I still haven't found something to do it that way yet. Open  
> Office allow me to edit one records at a time. Fine for many cases, but  
> not for all. Even on a MAC I do sadly use VMWare to run Windows and have  
> Access there as I have no alternative. Call that sad and it is. But  
> that's one case. Only one yes, but one case where I have no alternative,  
> or find one yet and I sure have been looking for years.
>
> All that said, for everything else yes I totally agree with you. I do  
> not have any other case.
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
>

This sounds like a very solvable problem unless it is a proprietary
database.