dbFront
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dbFront enables rapid creation of dynamic web apps using SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle. Quick setup in minutes, it auto-updates with database changes, supports complex server setups, offers action buttons, validation fields, row security, custom themes, and data export/import.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
Canada
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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- Danilo_Venom updated dbFront
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dbFront information
Developed by
Big Ideas Computing Ltd. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $249 and $1499 + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
Quite simply, this product lets you use the power of a database to maintain & report on your data without the need for any front end programming. Providing you use foreign key constraints to maintain your data relationships dbFront will do the rest for you. It provides you with effective control over user authentication & database access and auditing. You can determine which columns to display or hide, which to allow to be read only and which are required. You also have control over the sequence in which columns are shown on the screen. It handles lookup tables well with the ability to sequence the lookup drop down data in any sequence you like. If you want to add business logic into all of this you can always utilise back end database triggers and the dbFront provided Action Buttons. It allows you to easily define who can Read/Update/Delete rows on any table. I needed dbFront because although I am an experienced database designer/developer my user interface development skills are sadly way out of date. dbFront allows me to provide a standardised front end for my users to maintain and report on their data. The support I have received from the dbFront team has been excellent.
This is a very versatile and easy to use product to give you a well laid out front end to your database. And the support is fantastic!
Thank you for the review and you're very welcome.
Excellent product! The customer service and help from Anthony is amazing!!
I cant say enough good things about dbFront. I was in need of a quick way to update info in an old MSSQL 2000 db. The first app I came across was dbFront. I haven't had to look any further. I had a small issue setting it up due to it being connected to an old MSSQL 2000 db, but I contacted support and they released a new version that worked right away. I hadnt even committed to buying it yet. Hows that for great support? Once I got the db connected, setting the UI up to my requirements was a breeze.
If you need a easy to use UI for your db, dbFront is for you!
Thanks for the great review!
After looking and tiring lot of frontend db software to be chip easy to use and maintain, i had found dBfront. Every single dollar is worth. The support is excellent, almost like a personal treat. The software performances, and it's web frontend are almost perfect. The developer is attentive to users requests and features. For me, it's an elite software.
We're using dbFront as the front end to our own in house data warehouse design, we make a separate warehouse per business area and thus have multiple warehouses to create/manage. We tried to create our own solution and dbFront offers more features, has a friendlier interface and is generally a huge improvement over what we'd managed to make.
On the one hand it is just an interface between the user and SQL (in our case it's a SQL database or ten) but the implementation of drop down boxes, buttons to fire off stored procs and general flexibility of how it can display things is leading us to find more and more uses for it.
We currently have the warehouse design section and another section for users to update the necessary manual tables in various processes and dbFront is the friendly face they see. I've had to do no coding, very little in terms of learning how it works as it's an intuitive interface and every time I've faced an issue with what I was trying to do I had support I could rely on.
Oh and if you can think of something which dbFront might be able to do or would be useful if it could do, they're not afraid to take the idea on board and work on achieving the goal.
Great webfront to our databases! Been looking for something like this for a long time when I found Dbfront. It does everything I need and a lot more!