Kexi "Microsoft Access for Linux"

Thursday, November 6, 2008 by Shakir ,

Kexi is a popular open source database creating software which is almost equal to MS Access. Although OpenOffice has a component in this regard as well but it is less used and less feature rich. According to the official website Kexi has the features of:

  • Full visual designers for tables, queries and forms. Queries can be also designed in dedicated SQL view.
  • Running queries, support for parametrized queries.
  • Data entry and sorting.
  • Support for "Object" data allowing to store images of many types.
  • Designing and displaying relational data using combo boxes (lookup columns).
  • Simple printounts for table and query data with robust print preview.
  • Advanced CSV data import and export from files. Copying to clipboard and pasting from clipboard is also available, thus the data can be easily transferred to applications like spreadsheets or word processors.
  • User Mode, allowing to switch off all commands related to editing project's design (since 1.1.2)
  • "Find" window for searching thought table and form's contents with rich set of options (since 1.1.3)
  • Support for simple database templates (since 1.1.3)
It supports various database engines including MySQL, SQLLite, PostgreSQL etc. And it is obvious that this piece of code is available cross platform, for Mac, Linux and Windows.

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