Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-09-03 Thread Buck Deadrich
I don't have any idea why I'm receiving this.  It appears to be for a tutorial but I'm not invovled in any tutorial or a program that uses one.  Please check your records.  Thanks. --- On Tue, 8/31/10, Joe Smith wrote: From: Joe Smith Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Fe

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-31 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/31/2010 07:45 PM, Joe Smith wrote: On 08/31/2010 04:38 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Thank you all for the input in proofreading the tutorial Glad it's helpful; I'm enjoying going through it! I can see that you've spent a lot of effort to make things clear, and it rea

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-31 Thread Joe Smith
On 08/31/2010 04:38 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Thank you all for the input in proofreading the tutorial Glad it's helpful; I'm enjoying going through it! I can see that you've spent a lot of effort to make things clear, and it really helps. After stumbling through Chapte

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-31 Thread mcasanova
Thank you all for the input in proofreading the tutorial. It is true that there is an inconsistent use of the words "client" and "patient". In the tutorial I have tried to use the word "Client" (with a capital c) to denote the person who needs the database system (in this case the director of the c

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-29 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Inner and outer joins. Actually there is a good example for an outer join with doctors and patients. Patients have a relationship with Doctors, yes. Suppose I want to list all the doctors and all the patients assigned to each. If you do an inner join between two table it returns t

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-29 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/26/2010 02:41 PM, Joe Smith wrote: [ Sorry, I'm jumping into the middle of a thread here. I don't have the original message to reply to. ] Mariano, As a frustrated beginner with Base, I've been eagerly awaiting a draft of your tutorial. Now that it's here, I can say it was definitely

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-26 Thread Joe Smith
[ Sorry, I'm jumping into the middle of a thread here. I don't have the original message to reply to. ] Mariano, As a frustrated beginner with Base, I've been eagerly awaiting a draft of your tutorial. Now that it's here, I can say it was definitely worth the wait: you've done a great job org

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-25 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
e, 8/24/10, Buck Deadrich wrote: > > > From: Buck Deadrich > Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial > To: dev@documentation.openoffice.org > Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 4:20 PM > > > D

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-24 Thread Andy Brown
Buck Deadrich wrote: Don't know why I am receiving this. It has no bearing on me. Buck, You received the message because your on the mailing list. Some how your address was registered with the mailing list. To unsubscribe click the link below and send a blank email. Follow the instructio

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Jensen
Hello again Buck, OK, I'm going to guess that you mean how did you get on the list. I don't know, but I can tell you how to get your name of it. Simply send an email to: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org Using the same email account you are receiving the email on - you will get a con

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-24 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/24/2010 07:20 PM, Buck Deadrich wrote: Don't know why I am receiving this. It has no bearing on me. --- On Fri, 8/20/10, Drew Jensen wrote: Hi Buck, Well, do you mean - How did you get on a mailing list? or How is this relevant to this mailing list? Thanks Drew -

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-24 Thread Buck Deadrich
I don't understand why I am receiving this.  I am not part of any "tutorial"  please remove my name.  thanks Buck Deadrich --- On Tue, 8/24/10, Buck Deadrich wrote: From: Buck Deadrich Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial To: dev@documentation.open

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-24 Thread Buck Deadrich
Don't know why I am receiving this.  It has no bearing on me. --- On Fri, 8/20/10, Drew Jensen wrote: From: Drew Jensen Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial To: dev@documentation.openoffice.org Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 9:14 AM Hi, Went over Section 1

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-21 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Mariano, Went through Section 2 this morning. Nice job again on the data modeling section, that can be tricky stuff and you handle it IMO quite well. OK, one small typo. Page 66, 1st line. "This form is built" >> This report is built As for the joins I'll get something together and of

[documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-20 Thread mcasanova
Drew: Thank you so much for all your input and the exhaustive way in which you are analyzing the text. Also, thank you for your words. I read what you said about the outer joins. I did not include them simply because I had never come across them (I am ashamed to admit). Immediately after reading

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-20 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, Went over Section 1 this morning. One small typo - 1st paragraph on page 28 "spouses of a person, and unsigned byte ", the 'and' >> 'an'. The chapter on normalization is excellent. The chapter on data types I really want to go over again, I felt a bit uneasy with one of two items. Nit-