Private DB app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Portable Databases
First release : 05 Jan 2011
App size: 20.38 Mb
Private DB lets you load and view databases on your mobile devices. You can import CSV or tab-delimited text files from the web, email, Dropbox, or share them from iTunes into tables in your database.
NOTE: You can view and sort and search tables with this app, but cannot add, edit or delete rows. To do that, please use General DB.
With Private DB, your rows are:
* Searchable
* Sortable
* Selectable
This app is great for IT managers who want to distribute company data in table form, and dont want to worry about their users modifying the data.
It is also ideal for publishers of reference data tables, who do not want their users tampering with the data.
Some capabilities:
- Download and import tab-delimited or CSV text files
- Download from the web or Dropbox, or share from iTunes
- Import text files from the Mail app
- Download and execute SQL files
- Download and switch to SQLite databases
- Sort on up to three fields
- Search on any field
- Execute SQL commands in the SQL Console
- Create views on tables to reorder or select a subset of fields
Latest reviews of Private DB app for iPhone and iPad
This thing isnt worth a hoot. All they want to do is move you up the notch to a more pricy app. I uninstalled almost immediately after receiving and setting up. They really need to clean up the interface and include a tutorial of some kind. There are an awful lot of us fourth graders out here trying to get this stuff to work. MLM.
This app is AWESOME! If you want to check out how it works you should probably start out with the parent app MAJOR GENERAL DB. Its worth well over the price it sells for. Private DB is pretty much a simple and powerful database viewer app that doesnt hog up iPad resources like others. Trust me, I searched high and low downloading every type of database viewing software, an this IS THE BEST! The app is AWESOME and the Developer is Hands down the best in the biz. He answered every question and bent over backward for me at times. If you need a database solution buy this app and MAJOR GENERAL and you will be unstoppable.. Basically you import your data into MAJOR GENERAL and export the .DB file to Private DB. this comes in really handy if you want to give friends or co-workers read only database tables with minimum cost and effort......BUY BUY BUY!!!
Has done the job for me. The ability to search within data was the clincher! I also requested some support & the developer was extremely helpful in sorting out the small issue I was having. Highly recommended.
Complete waste of time. Importing anything, even a flat text file, the app will "import" it and the preview looks perfect but then it provides nothing but disjointed code remnants for the rows and columns. Seems to display the same garbage after the import no matter what I tried importing. The same ~120 rows of programming code appears in lieu of the data. Pure waste of time and glad I didnt pay to try it out. Avoid.