Have you done a search on “SQL” on the App Store? Quite a bit there to look at but evaluating might be tough, since it’s App Store.Ĥth Dimension (4D) is still being marketed after all these years, but at prices similar to Filemaker Pro. The developer still provides a free demo, and you could even “rent” it for a few months at low cost if you need more assessment time. Panorama might be a good way to go, but I didn’t want to chuck what FMP knowledge I’ve gained, and Panorama is rent-ware (a rather benign form, but still). Seems most people just do their “computing” on their phones these days.

A few months ago, after long reflection, I bit the bullet and upgraded to FMP 19, consistent with my practice of upgrading every 3 years (FMP 10, 13, 16, 19), which kept me in the window for updates at $300. There is very little left for semi-pro hobbyists, self-employed developers, or just plain database people.

But with SQL and tables I have no idea of the practical implications of running them on a Mac, and I have never seen SQL applications in real use on a personal computer (don’t get around much these days!).Īs an interim solution, I will put FM 15 on an 2013 Mini, so I do have time to do the conversions.ĭo any of the esteemed Tidbit Talk users, have any ideas or comments? Or maybe know of other database systems that can handle relational tables AND doesn’t run on the cloud? Thanks. I know what is involved in the conversion to Panorama, having looked at demo versions in the past and finding it similar to FM. Its been a very long time since I used SQL on IBM DB2 tables on IBM mainframes but I assume the concepts are still similar. I’m tossing between using Panorama X or creating SQL dbs.

The cost of upgrading to a later version of FM is prohibitive for just a single user application. I have been using FM for over 30 years and have many relational db’s which will need to be converted to a new platform. Now that I am the happy owner of a new MacBookPro 14” to replace my 2012 MBP (stuck on Mojave), I discover that File Maker 15 won’t run on Monterey, even thought it is 64 bit.

Need to read a filemaker pro database