When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.

From Excel to a database system with Excel acting only as a front end, the ability to manipulate data became more important.

If your business accounting program connects to an SQLite database, you might want to export data from the application for analysis and use in Microsoft Excel.

What really makes Blist a database application is the ability to apply various “lenses”, or views, to the data. These lenses are like queries since they allow you to view the data by ...