General DB 2.1
Device: Mac OS
Category: Business
Price: $7.99, Version: 2.0 -> 2.1 (iTunes)
Description:General DB is a general-purpose database app designed for both casual users and power users.*** RECENT IMPROVEMENTS ***- New View Creator supports multiple tables!- Active Grid Button for quicker browsing of rows!- Expanded Edit View for rapid data entry!- Compute total, min, max, avg from the column headers!General DB is great for recording information quickly and flexibly. For example, if you have a bottle collection, you could make a table with these fields: Date Acquired, Bottle Type, Bottle Origin, Shape, Notes. Then whenever you add a new bottle to your collection, you can add a row to the table describing it.If you want to track visits to different vacation sites, you can make a table with fields for the Date Visited, Location, Description, and Attraction. As you visit the sites, you can add corresponding rows to your table.After you add rows to your tables, they will be:* Searchable * Sortable * Selectable Many apps are too specific to a subject, but General DB is flexible enough to handle many, many needs, such as: - Inventories- Customer info - Membership lists- Tracking Logs- Accounts - and many more ! No database knowledge is required to use this app, but you will pick some up as you go!Distribute databases to either General DB for the iPhone and iPad, or the free Private DB!For power users:General DB allows easy data entry into a full-fledged SQLite database. To do so, it enhances it with field types.The field types allowed are Text, Number, Date, Time, Duration, Location, Photo, and custom picker types. There are convenient buttons next to some fields for easier input.For administrators or IT manager, you can create a master database of reference information that you don't want your users to modify. This master database can be published on the internet and either the Private DB app or General DB can download and view it.Some more powerful features:- Import text files into tables- Execute SQL- Custom picker types to select values from a list- SQL templates for tables- Add SQL statements to your Favorites- See and execute past SQL in the History- Create views as JOINs of 2 or more tables for relational capabilities- Export selected rows from your tables to a file- Create databases- And much more!New features, fixes, and improvements on the way. See the version history of General DB for iOS to see how responsive we are to feature requests and problem reports.
What's New
- View Creator supports multiple tables!- Compute total, min, max, avg by clicking the column headers!- Rename table from the table list view by clicking the table name or pressing enter button- Double-click on the header separator in the rows view to resize- Prevents views from attempts to change field order, add fields, or delete fields- Updated Help- bug fixesNOTES: - the Search popover and SQL popovers no longer close when the Search or Go buttons are pressed, so that you can more easily issue another search or select query- It is wise to backup your databases before an update such as this one. To backup your databases, either use Time Machine or manually copy them to another location from the apps container
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