Software that supports custom attributes and can generate all combinations of them?

Posted by Amontillado
Mar 1, 2023 at 12:50 PM

C’mon, man, please leave room for others having experience you would benefit from.

Sqlite is a database with limitations. It’s great within those limits. Easy Data Transform is an analysis tool with powers and abilities far beyond mere regex (which, among many other things, EDT supports).

Would you use sqlite for, say, desktop publishing? No, of course not. It’s not a graphics and layout tool, it’s a database. Would you use EDT as a relational database? You could, it does joins and lookups and column operations - but it’s not a good choice for a web site backend.

Easy Data Transform is to sqlite as Corvettes are to crowbars. There are things you can do with crowbars that you can’t do with Corvettes. Crowbars are fine tools. Corvettes are fine sports cars. Neither is better than the other.

It is, however, more impressive to arrive at the office in a Corvette instead of dragging a crowbar. Easy Data Transform makes a good impression, too.

22111 wrote:
Since this thread has degenerated into an ad for some data transform
>software (which has certainly its place in the toolbox of users who
>don’t know about regex), does anyone remember the original, the thread
>starter’s, question?
> >To which is answer obviously is, get some free SQLite db frontend, and
>then have a look into sqlitetutorial.net (and similar web sites) - since
>indeed, the usual CSV viewers (some of them free, again) ain’t powerful
>enough, and MS Excel… well… why searching for complications where
>there are none inherent, right?