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Creating an Employee Management App | 6-Step Guide

Today, we’re going to run through how to build a relatively simple but no less powerful tool - an employee management app using Budibase. Your employees - along with their skills, knowledge, and expertise - are some of your most valuable assets. Therefore, making better use of their time is one of the easiest ways to create huge efficiency savings. And for that, we need proper oversight. Who is doing what - and when?

Ronan McQuillan

Apr 6, 2023

How to Build a Firebase GUI

A Firestore Firebase GUI is the easiest way to interact with your database without coding. Firebase is a versatile tool for app developers. It can completely replace the back end of your app, so you can focus on its front end and features. But all this versatility comes with a cost. Firestore Firebase is widely used by developers, but interacting with it can be quite hard - in particular, if you need to perform admin actions.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 21, 2022

How to Build a FREE Elasticsearch GUI in 4 Steps

If you want to manage or retrieve data without coding, an Elasticsearch GUI might just be the tool for you. Elasticsearch is used to perform fast searches, no matter how big your database is. It uses a series of ingenious solutions to preprocess data, allowing you to scale your database as much as you need, without sacrificing efficiency. It has so many tools that it’s hard to make sure that you are getting the most out of it.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 2, 2022

How to Build a Redis GUI

With a Redis GUI, you can make the most out of your database, without memorizing any commands. Databases are incredible business tools. They allow you to store and manipulate large sets of data. That way, you can make better-informed decisions. They provide you with insights that just wouldn’t be possible with manual data storage. But they can be quite complex. Redis is a NoSQL database. It allows you to store data in key/value pairs.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 17, 2022

How to Build a REST API GUI in 4 Steps

If you need a simple and flexible REST API GUI, you’ve come to the right place. REST APIs are incredibly useful. They allow you to interact with services and sites without scraping them. You can just access a URL, send some parameters and get a response. But when it comes to building your apps and actually communicating with them, things can get tricky. Sometimes they won’t respond as you’d expect. It can get quite tricky to pinpoint where the issue is- with your code or the API itself.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 23, 2022

Build a Free SQL GUI in 5 Steps

SQL is a powerful database query language that can be used to unlock valuable insights stored in databases. But SQL can be difficult to learn and use, particularly for non-specialists. That’s where a SQL GUI (Graphical User Interface) comes in handy. SQL GUIs are useful for developers and non-developers alike. They provide intuitive interfaces to interact with the database without writing SQL syntax commands. You can visually interact with tables, rows, fields, searches, and more, without any specialist knowledge.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 22, 2022

How to Build a Database GUI | In-Depth Guide

Database GUI (Graphical User Interface) are tools that allow you to interact with databases even if you aren’t a programmer. In addition, they are useful for programmers, since they provide quick ways to get data. When it comes to picking the right database GUI for you, things get tricky. Although there are a lot of options out there, there are many things to take into account. From something as simple as pricing to more complex considerations, like the functionality provided.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 22, 2022

How to Build a MongoDB GUI in 4 Steps

MongoDB is an amazing NoSQL database technology. But it can get quite tricky to add or retrieve information from it. That’s why a MongoDB GUI (graphical user interface) is a handy tool. NoSQL by itself can have a steep learning curve. Instead of regular tables and rows, you have collections and documents. And unlike rows that have the same columns by definition, documents can be completely different within a collection.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 22, 2022

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