Posted by petersprc on 11/24/07 10:33

Hi,

Oracle has a tool they call APEX (Oracle Application Express) that
provides a user-friendly RAD environment for building databases:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/index.html

In the web application space, there are applications such as
caspio.com and quickbase.com that allow users to create web-accessible
databases.

Regards,

John Peters

On Nov 21, 10:16 am, jimenezkra...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I administrate a large number of Oracle databases for my company.
>
> Some DBs are easily structured and the staff responsible for keeping
> them updated are able to use an Oracle client (SQirreL, PLSQL/
> Developer, or even MS Access as a client) to directly access Oracle
> and update their tables (without messing around with integrity etc).
>
> Other DBs are too complex in their structure or the staff responsible
> for data updating are not able to handle with SQL and have no skills
> in working directly on DB objects...
>
> For the later case I wish I could offer them a foolprof'ed, user-
> friendly web-based tool for updating data (enter new data; update
> existing data; delete data).
>
> I dream of a generic web-based DB-maintenance application which
> enables to:
> - configure your application by naming the tables, the relations
> between them, the constrains, etc, and you get on the fly an
> application that enables you to browse from master to slave table, to
> move from record to record and from column to column and edit/delete/
> insert data in/from/into them.
> - perform checks (data type, domain constrains, etc) using the info
> from the data dictionary.
> - perform pre-defined plausibility checks.
> - supports data capture helps like drop-down-lists for foreign keys,
> check or radio buttons for flag-columns.
> - etc etc etc.
>
> This is something I would love to develop myself... if I only had the
> time!
>
> I wonder that (at least as far as I have been able to google around)
> there is nothing like this on the market!
>
> Best regards from Bonn, Julian

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