# The &kexi; Handbook

Martin A. Ellis martin.ellis@kdemail.net
Jaroslaw Staniek js@iidea.pl
2004 2005 Jaroslaw Staniek Martin Ellis
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2006-01-25
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&kexi; is the application for creating databases and for data management in the &koffice; productivity suite.

KDE KOffice Kexi database
&intro; &basics; &building; &configuration; &menus; &credits; &database;

## Comparing &kexi; to other database applications

Although different database applications tend to provide similar functionality, they often use different terminology. For your convenience, this appendix shows how the terminology used in &kexi; corresponds to that used by other database applications. Thus, this chapter may be useful when migrating databases to from one application to another.

### Data types

The table below shows how the data types in &kexi; correspond to data types in other database applications.

Some of the data types listed here are sub-types of other types. For example, the Long text type is a sub-type of the Text type. To use a sub-type in &kexi;, you should select the corresponding basic type (in this case, Text) in the table designer, and then select the sub-type using the Subtype setting in the Properties Editor.

Comparison of data types used in &kexi; and other database applications

&kexi; | MS Access | dBase/FoxPro | Paradox
--- | --- | --- | ---
Text (Text) | Text | Character | Alphanumeric
Long text (Long text) | Memo | Memo | Memo
Date/Time (Date/Time) | Date, Time | Date | DateTime
Integer Number (Integer Number) | Number (Integer) | Numeric | Integer
Big Integer Number (Big Integer Number) | Long Integer | Numeric | Long Integer
Floating Point Number (Floating Point Number) | Single/Double precision number | Float | Number

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