Sometime around 30/6/05 (at 20:47 -0500) Stephen Barncard said:
Keith;
Are you sure the resources aren't already available at the ISP the
office already uses for its web site (assuming it has one)?
It is a political issue rather than a financial one I'm afraid. [sigh]
Actually, it is also a
Revolution with simple scripting and stack structure, yes; MySQL,
no. Not yet, anyway. :-)
I was under the assumption that this was a shared database project.
If it's just the same app on the same machine, then a card-metaphor
thing would work. If it goes on the network like that, one user
Hi Stephen - thanks for the further comments!
Revolution with simple scripting and stack structure, yes; MySQL,
no. Not yet, anyway. :-)
I was under the assumption that this was a shared database project.
That's something that she's hoping to be able to do. I'm rapidly
coming to the
Hi Keith,
I designed a simple application to keep track of payments to ca. 1000
accounts. Originally I went with a single text file, parsed for the
individual account data which was then loaded into fields in a single
stack, but I had troubles getting the formatting to work equally well
on
This simplest way, in my opinion, is this...
Have the data for each record be stored in a text file that is placed in
a folder that is only used for storing these records.
Have a rev app that allows the user to access the records as needed, but
not all records at once.
Whenever someone opens a
I have make some database before, and I use these method :
A stack for each user (in the user directories), and work with field -- There
are a problem : With more than 1000 entries, the stack is really big, and
slow...
A text file, with separator (good, but can be slow if the engine is not
Hi Keith,
What's the very simplest way to build a basic card database stack which
needs to be used by more than one person at once?
This is a simple data capture tool which creates a new card for each chunk
of data that's entered (details on a new product) and spits out a
tab-delimited text
This is a simple data capture tool which creates a new card for
each chunk of data that's entered (details on a new product) and
spits out a tab-delimited text file to be sent off to another
organisation for their use.
It is likely to be left open on someone's screen, but it is also
likely
Keith;
Are you sure the resources aren't already available at the ISP the
office already uses for its web site (assuming it has one)?
Your wife's fears notwithstanding, MySQL is offered with other web
goodies at a very reasonable price at many ISPs, such as Dreamhost
(less than $10/month
