This message came to me in another Mac list serve of which I am a member. I thought I would throw it out to the group.
---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Subject: Re: [sandvox] Bit Off Too Much - Listing of Our Group Date Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:03 AM From: David Groover <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Reply To: [email protected] My favorite database tool by far is Panorama. Made by Provue. <http://www.provue.com/Panorama/Features/index.html> I used to use FileMaker and I have nothing bad to say about it. But at some chance moment I discovered Panorama and I was amazed. Why had no one in my Mac circles mentioned it before? And yet it is the second oldest Mac program commercially produced. Panorama is unique because it is RAM based. That means it is very fast. It also has a very small footprint. I know, FileMaker is much more popular and it will certainly do what you want to do. I just had to offer a nod to a relatively unknown but, IMHO stellar Mac DB program, Panorama. As a very brief example, I got my first exposure to Panorama while trying to learn 4D, another Mac DB program. One of the things that happens in Panorama is that with the RAM speed, it takes in text files that are huge and the click of a mouse button. Want to import a 10,000 record file? Click, done. No progress bar, no waiting. In a database with 2,500 records, want to find all instances of a record with names matching "Steve W"? Click and there you are, 6 hits found before you can even get your finger off the mouse. FileMaker is slightly less complicated to use at the start, I Admit that. But 4D was much to complicated for my brain. When you start to want to customize FileMaker however, some are very adept and writing scripts in it, something that I could never grasp very well. Panorama lets you copy what you do and then look at it to see how it uses formulas. This made its internal workings much more accessible to my brain. And yes, Panorama comes with many of it's own solutions and examples right out of the box. Panorama is relational but it won't require you to understand join tables. IT works so quickly that it acts more like a flat file DB, but it is truly as powerful as a relational DB. OK, enough with the merits of Panorama. I love it and I just had to mention it. Choose whatever works for you. I just wanted you to know, you have choices. David On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Loren naiman wrote: > Try using a product like FileMaker. A Data base will give you this > funtionality. > > On 1/20/09 9:24 PM, "heytherestony" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> I've been working on a web site for a local group of businesses >> and they asked me to provide >> a listing of the members that was searchable by category or name. >> What I'd like to do is make >> a list where, if you click the title, it sorts the list by that >> field. If possible, it would also be >> good to make the list sortable by clicking the title field. >> >> But I think I've bitten off more than I can chew. Yikes, any >> thoughts or help? >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> > > ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
