On 19 Aug 2008 at 16:41, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Point is that the original poster is not a database worker. And has no plans > on having tens of thousands of things in the database. c
Show me where in Johannes' original post where he says any of these things: On 19 Aug 2008 at 7:38, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > My orchestra needs to create a database for its small, but growing > music library. Can someone give me some hints on how to do this, > preferable on a Mac? I want something which is easy to maintain and > where I can see how many string parts we have, perhaps also who > borrows which part, etc. I see there that he needs a database that is able to grow as needed, even though the library is currently small. And if he needs to track the location of individual string parts, then how, exactly can that be done in a flat file? Secondly, all of proposals from those who are proposing something more than a flat table have been directed towards people who don't do database design for a living. And the tools suggested are exactly those that are appropriate for those kind of users, because those tools make it quite easy to build relational databases and user interfaces for editing and searching your data. On 19 Aug 2008 at 16:41, Eric Dannewitz continued: > Therefore, using a flat file database, like Bento, or even index cards, > would be totally fine to use. They really don't need to learn how to > set up and manage a relational database........ Where do you get the information that Bento is flat file? Please point that out to me somewhere in the web page about it. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
