Elder Dan Lewis wrote:
I am still not satisfied with the outline as it is presently. The
name of the chapter seems to describe what is contained in it: the
planning for a database, and then the actual designing of it.
The later chapters should include the entering of test data in each
part to see what works and what needs to be changed to make it work.
Reizinger Zoltán mentioned some people trying to use the wizards to
create a database for on office and failing because they did not know
what they were doing. Perhaps this would be an excellent database to use
as the relational database for the Base Guide. I'm not sure what all
this database would involve, but I would like to see the table structure
of such a database. So, if Reizinger would do this much for the project,
it would be very helpful. My databases are usually personal in nature,
but there are many people who need a business type database.
Here is the link to my suggested outline:
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/db3/base3_feedback/Chapter-2-outline_DEL_20091026.odt/view
Dan,
I have did a quick read of the document and will try to help fill in the
needed items. It may take some time but I will work up an example of
a business type database to use as well. I have another project that I
think I can work from to get a good example. This will also give me a
chance to see what, if any, limits exist on using the GUI/Wizards for
large scale databases.
I still have to read up on SQL for base but that should not take to much
time.
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Andy Brown
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