FileMaker can do both if you wanted. Flat database would be like index cards. Relational database is more like a spider web, where there are little parts that are related to multiple things.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:09 PM, John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 4:21 PM -0700 8/19/08, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > >> Again, we are floating off topic. I don't believe the original poster is >> going to track anything that is going to morph into this FUD case you are >> trying to make a flat database out to be. It would totally work fine for >> what the original posters needs. >> > > Could we define our terms for the non-experts here? What the heck is > a"flat database," and why do you say (in another message) that FMP is one > when David says it is something else? > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
