Approaching Omnis again scares me, too much to learn?

Marc De Roover omnis1 at arcict.com
Fri Jan 5 11:37:35 EST 2018


Jerry,

Since you missed Euromnis this year :-(

At EurOmnis Bob W announced a one more thing: an addition to the SQLite 
DAM which would allow an DML emulation to SQLite.
As Bob said it feels like a guilty pleasure. ( and if can be done for 
SQLite why not PG . . . )

This is imho one additional reason to move to O$8

Regards,


Marc

On 4 Jan 2018, at 15:14, Jerry Greenberg wrote:

> Hi Das, basic SQL is actually pretty simple and for most desktop/dml 
> type apps that's all you'll really need.  Sure for ultimate efficiency 
> you can create some complex SQL but for smaller apps it's really not 
> necessary.  Learn the strategies of connecting your tables, learn your 
> joins and you'll be off to a running start.
>
> As you may recall I have been around Omnis since the 80s as well, and 
> for a while on the Omnis Consulting team, and I have worked with many 
> of the developers here and on numerous large projects and I think my 
> best advice for you is this.  Understand that much of what you read 
> here on the list comes from developers that have or currently work on 
> multi developer teams, for large companies, and on very large 
> projects, and the techniques they use have some great advantages in 
> that environment.  But, to try and implement those techniques in a 
> single developer environment is most likely counter productive, 
> daunting and complex.  You may want to learn some of those techniques 
> down the line but you don't have to use them.
>
> My suggestion is to learn basic sql, and forget about table classes, 
> and query classes for now. (if you use them you won't be learning your 
> sql)  Just use the schema classes, define your lists and rows from the 
> schema classes, create some select statements, and use your notation 
> skills to access the data.  It's a good start.
>
>
> oh btw. the sqllite database is a great little database which I look 
> at as a great replacement to the datafile.
>
>
> Good luck,
> Jerry
>
> At 03:55 PM 1/2/2018, you wrote:
>> Hello All, I am RE approaching Omnis with a view to becoming a 
>> developer/consultant to businesses. I am completely expert with Omnis 
>> and the native database it provides, but don’t know SQL or 
>> anything else, I only know Omnis. I don’t know any other 
>> language at all.  I go back to 86 but haven’t done anything for 
>> ten years.  It’s scary enough to have to learn SQL and how to 
>> connect to databases.  But all the stuff you guys and gals discuss 
>> here and on the other forum scares me.  How did you all learn all 
>> about Java and Jason and Restful etc etc.  How do you keep it 
>> straight in your heads? My real question is this:  If I could learn 
>> SQL and how to setup and maintain backends and the connectivity, is 
>> that enough to be a consultant today?  I imagine right away the next 
>> point is that businesses will want phone access apps, tablet apps, to 
>> access their databases and then I’d be looking at Javascript 
>> which I don’t know. At age 57 and reapproaching, I wonder how 
>> much time it takes to learn these things and begin consulting. Are 
>> all these fancy other things smaller than Omnis learning itself?  I 
>> sure hope so.  It took a good while to learn Omnis.  I’m very 
>> good at Omnis but only Omnis Native.  Don’t yet know what a 
>> Schema is, but I can do notation to control anything, I can do 
>> complex interfaces and handle complex data.  Just dont know anything 
>> else.  Do any businesses still go for using the Native Datafile?  
>> With that I’m ready already. One reason I want to learn SQL is 
>> to earn more.  The businesses for which the Native datafile is 
>> appropriate are smaller and poorer.  I believe you can charge more to 
>> the SQL requiring businesses.  Comments? Is the "Lone Developer" 
>> still possible?   You all seem to be in teams. Just scared badly.   
>> Any help appreciated. 
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