[CAUT] Piano database]

[Jim Busby]

Ditto Doug,

 

I will send you a free template of the Filemaker program we use here at
BYU if you want it. A student wiz made it and it fills all our needs.

 

Jim Busby

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Douglas Wood
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:20 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano database]

 

I have found Filemaker to be quite reasonable to work with, as long as I
keep my needs relatively simple. Just mimicking examples in the manual
has gotten me as far as I need. Some sort of automated scheduling would
be a bit more work, probably, but likely quite doable. But you'd have to
be very clear on the process (clear to the exceedingly stupid and
blindingly fast computer!). I usually try to focus on what questions I
really need answered, and set up the databases; their relationships; and
the views, sorts and filters to answer them.

 

I've never used Access, so I don't know whether it would be more
difficult or not. Same for Time & Chaos. But it is true that any way you
do it will take hours, perhaps days to get fully up and running from
scratch. Of course, data entry is usually a bigger project than that...

 

Doug

 

On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Jeff Tanner wrote:





 

On Sep 5, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Douglas Wood wrote:





My oldest brother thinks I should get a "real database", meaning
Microsoft Access (sp?). 

 

We tried setting up Access database for my home business, but it was far
too complicated and confusing.  Time & Chaos works well enough for much
less dough.

Jeff

 

Jeff Tanner, RPT

University of South Carolina

 





 

 

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