Rickey wrote: > Ok, I can't put this off any longer. I have too many cards, dances in the > computer, dances on scrapes of paper. I need a database! I would like to > be able to enter the dance into it and some other information like author, > or period or difficulty and then be able to ask it to show me all the dances > that have ladies chain to hey transitions, or have a California twirl, God > willing, or half promenade to half right-and-left through's, or that I once > thought might be good for one night stands with mixed crowds by the > seashore. It could also link back to showing me the entire dance. I know > that this is very basic database stuff, but I'm not too database literate. > I have Access and tried to do this there. I'm sure it can be done. Does > anyone have an off the shelf suggestion, or an easy answer. Easy answers do > exist for some things.
> Thanks, > Rickey Holt > (Overwhelmed-in-New-Hampshire) > P.S. I have a pc running Windows XP and megagigas of ram and storage. http://www.colinhume.com/download.htm I haven't tried this myself - I get by pretty nicely with a zillion separate text files, manually maintained indexes, text search tools, etc - but it sounds pretty nice. Colin doesn't explicitly mention figure searches, but the program is shareware, so you can download it and play with it to see if it'll do what you need, and only pay for it if you're going to really use it. ($80). -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- [email protected] Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================
