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For desktops Libreoffice Base is nice.

See here for more: https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-access/

For web hosting, I would push PHP. Each page is it's own end point!

I don’t mind it being a desktop app but I don’t want users specifying database connection info and having a raw database view. Metabase has admins setup the database connection and then users go through the regular email/password access. You can create all sorts of custom data views (not sql views).. hah, this sounds like an ad. So, a simple email/password protected login possibly with 2fa and then allowing operators to edit results of predefined custom views is what I’m missing. Typically this is reimplemented everywhere

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