[CAUT] Database

[Jim Busby]

John,

We use Filemaker here at the BYU Piano Shop. It is very user friendly,
inexpensive, and quite powerful. Our "instrument office" uses Access and
they had to literally take a course in it to learn how to use it, set it
up, etc., but they needed something even more powerful to manage the
huge inventory they have.

Jim Busby BYU



-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
John Baird
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:38 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Database

Hi Alan,

In Kansas City this summer you said that you had pretty much settled on 
this Filemaker database, although for many years prior you had used the 
Access database. I believe Ken Hale's PianoDB is required for the Access

database you were using.

At Millikin University we are using a simple MS Access application, that

I wrote, which leaves a lot to be desired. If we were to move up to 
something better, would you suggest the Filemaker program over the 
Access? Filemaker seems to be your preference, and no doubt you have 
continued to refine it.

John Baird

Alan McCoy wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>FYI. Scott Thile has created a CAUT Resource page on the CAUT site
>(http://www.ptg.org/caut.php/resource.htm). The first resource (of what I
hope
>will be many, diverse resources) that is free for the taking is a
database
>that I created for my use here at EWU in managing the inventory and my
time.
>This is a Filemaker 7 database. Once downloaded, you'll need to unzip
the
>files and then you'll need Filemaker 7 to use it. The companion Readme
is a
>separate file you can download and read that has some brief comments
and
>instructions about the database.
>
>Alan
>
>
>-- Alan McCoy, RPT
>Eastern Washington University
>amccoy@mail.ewu.edu
>509-359-4627
>
>
>
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