Sesame Database Manager 2.0.2

Publisher's description of Sesame Database Manager

Sesame Database Manager gives you the tools you need to easily create database applications and organize and present the information in them. Features such as centralized application design facilities, a consistent form-based interface, intuitive query-by-example searching, and HTML reports will have you creating attractive and smoothly functioning applications. If you are new to databases, Sesame Database Manager makes getting started with simple applications easy, fast, and fun. For those with more experience, Sesame Database Manager provides a variety of options within easy reach for customizing and programming your applications. Sesame Database Manager also provides Symantec Q&A users with an exclusive translator for Q&A databases.

Version 2.0.2 includes unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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  Sesame Database Manager

  Best software decision I have ever made, even better than Q&A.

  by: mite1840 on 08-Oct-2007 12:24:28 PM

  Pros: Sesame does a lot of the short cuts in data input that Q&A was unable to do without a lot of programming. We have saved so much time with data input that it is almost unbelievable. The data is more reliable and more portable. We interface with Microsoft Office to provide the our customers the reports they need. This process is all done with ease.

  We work with a third party provider that was one of the developers of Sesame. They(Hammer Data) provide us with excellent support in a very timely manner.

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  Sesame Database Manager

  Powerful program, but not for beginners

  by: drseed on 02-Oct-2007 08:51:06 PM

  Pros: I am a former user of Q&A 5.0, a MS-DOS relational database program developed by Symantec, but was never fully developed for Windows.. Q&A 5.0 was easy to use and to program. I absolutely loved the program. It was easy to set up, use, and customize. I have used it for years, but when I finally ran out of printers supported by printer drivers in the Q&A program, I had to consider Sesame. Sesame was developed with many of the same programming features of Q&A, plus many more features, and much more flexibility..

  Cons: After purchasing Sesame I spent quite a few hours trying to successfully translate my Q&A databases, but was very disappointed with the performance of the translation process. I contacted technical support which was helpful, but afterwards I still found the program interface to be frustrating to work with. I was also not up for learning yet another programming language - required to enable some of the advanced features. When I was offered the option by technical supports to translate my databases for a fee, I was quoted an outrageous price of several thousand dollars to use their translation service for translating 4 databases, 3 of which were not that complex. As a small business owner I couldn't afford that, so I decided to try recreating the Q&A databases in Sesame from scratch. Again, I found the user interface very clunky and not intuitive. The menu commands, navigation, and program tools were not were I expected them to be. After having worked with a large number of Windows programs for years, the learning curve is fairly quick for learning new programs, but not not so with this program. I finally gave up on Sesame after about 2 to 3 days of work. Instead I am now considering another program called AnyOrder which will accomplish many of the database needs of my e-commerce and mail-order business. I would have considered MS Access, but did not want to use a Microsoft product. I truly would like to see Sesame succeed, but (with version 1), it has a long ways to go. What Sesame users really need are a lot of sample databases that can be easily modified by the user which would be helpful in shortening the learning curve.

  I will have to agree with another reviewer, that you should draw your own conclusions about the similarity in tone of the 5-star reviews of this product submitted to date.

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