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Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

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Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

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In his follow up post he talks about union combining identical results. If the author ever reads this, you can prevent that by using `union all` instead of just `union`. That won't remove duplicates.

Indeed, though his work-around of adding a path column is something is worth having anyway, because it makes it much easier to see where the generated output has come from.

Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

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I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever h…

Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?

One of the low- or no-code tools.

Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

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I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever h…

Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?

Airtable

Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

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I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever h…

Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?

Access still exists, although I haven't used it in a long time

Alternatively, you can access Google Sheets with SQL queries, although I guess it probably wouldn't be great, but Google Forms + Sheets?

Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?

Simple CRUD apps with Python + Flask or Django I‘d say.

Even easier would be to use a CMS, I prefer Processwire but many others also have great form builders and generic list/calendar/etc views.

Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

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I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever h…

Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?

glide

https://www.glideapps.com

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