Brain, Rich - thanks for the reassurance. If I take on this project we'll have multiple "teams" of people looking at names on a petition form and looking through a list of registered voters to confirm that each signatory is qualified to sign. If they are qualified then they have to post in a subrecord the page and line number. When all the teams are done I'll take those subrecords and find out how many signers signed more than once. This is a referendum vote about taxing drinks at bars and I suspect that many qualified signers signed more than once and that even a larger number aren't qualified to sign in the first place. Distributing the DP app on cheap flash drives is efficient.
Thanks again. Don P.S. Brian - how far out of Sydney are you? I'm going to be passing through early next year and would love to buy you a drink. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Rich Bragonje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Don, > > I am running Firefox and Eudora from a flash drive. The Firefox app is part > of a suite of apps provided by PortableApps. I installed Eudora on the flash > drive, as I needed to use it on PC's where I don't have anything other than > User rights. > > You could install DP and the data on flash drives, and if you need to > incorporate updates from the flash data to a master db, then use the > transaction log to record any changes on the flash drives. You could set up > each flash drive with a unique transaction log filename for further > tracking. > > Rich > > > > > At 09:05 PM 7/16/2008, you wrote: > >> Does anyone have any experience working on an application from a flash >> drive? I have a project come up very suddenly where my client might want to >> distribute a database of about 900,000 items to multiple teams of people who >> will be examining some related data and marking many of the items with a >> "yes" or "no" mark. Does the flash drive serve the purpose of DP's temporary >> drive? >> >> -- >> Don Friedman >> ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC >> PRS Data Systems >> 205 S Main Street >> Pittsburgh, PA 15215 >> 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE >> 412-784-1615 Fax >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > -- Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax
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