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 ________________________________ 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070906/f3b5f1fb/attachment.html
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