Being currently unemployed like most of PDX, I'm volunteering at a place called Rosehaven - http://www.rosehaven.org - and besides having the grand chance to randomly sit and knit and crochet with some cool ladies, there's a project that I'd like to do for them that would be a benefit for me and my resume. I've been a support monkey for a long time and haven't learned much more than the very basics needed to know if something isn't working correctly in a database. I feel like I'm not getting as many hits on the resume as I could be and if I knew SQL and such better it'd help since most of the support jobs seem to want that, and I'd like to go into QA eventually.
Mostly for my own education, I want to set up a database that would track names, addresses, contact numbers and email addresses, and hours worked monthly and be able to pull it into a report every quarter, plus be easier to keep updated than their current paper system. I know you can do this all on a spreadsheet and I'll likely draft it that way, what I'm curious about is which tools would be good for this as a relational database? I'd say they have between 100-200 active people that would be in it with summer kids and practicum students and such included. I'm not interested yet in making it into a login-type tracking system because I think that would be too much for them to try to maintain, but something that the sign-in sheets would be imputed into at the end of the day or the week. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but I do want to try to learn how to set this up by myself. Thanks. -- Amy Kelly // [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
