Re: Learning curve

2004-04-20 Thread Mike T. Caskey
Rhino... I'm with Joshua on this one. Any university that is still doing everything with hardcopy and that has few if any computer systems to store things at this point in time is scary. Fortunately, they appear to be getting at least a glimmer of the idea that they could do much better with a com

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-20 Thread Mike T. Caskey
askey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Learning curve Mike T. Caskey wrote: Hi all! I'm wondering if anyone can help me find out how much time/training is needed to accomplish my task using MySQL. My background: I'm fresh to the world of MySQL and databases in general. I do have s

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-20 Thread Mike T. Caskey
Eric, Right, I think the OO.o thing just isn't going to work for me, unless I can get the IT department to like it, but they're already deeply invested in MSO. The MS Access interface idea would be a quick solution, but I wonder if there would be version conflicts in the future, since the MSO

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-20 Thread Mike T. Caskey
Thanks for the info Daniel, Could you maybe link me to some of the projects you've seen for uploading images too? -Mike Caskey Daniel Kasak wrote: Mike T. Caskey wrote: Hi all! I'm wondering if anyone can help me find out how much time/training is needed to accomplish my task using MySQL.

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-20 Thread Mike T. Caskey
J, Thanks for your response. I should say, it's not the entire university which has fallen so far behind, just my department. Also, the records we need to manage with this system will be only within this department... at first. Could you possibly link me to some of those projects on SF and

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-19 Thread Brent Baisley
I hate to say this, but you may want to look into FileMaker if you don't know a lot about databases and programming. You'll be able to get things up to speed a lot quicker and other users would be able to learn it fairly easily to help you out. I often use FileMaker to prototype a database and

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-15 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Mike T. Caskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:06 PM Subject: Learning curve > Hi all! > > I'm wondering if anyone can help me find out how much time/training is > needed to accomplish my task using MySQL. > > My

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-15 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Mike - You didn't indicate your department, so I'm not sure what your background is. Your message, overall, is a bit scary, as any university that far behind right now would be worrisome. I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for (as you didn't ouline your requirements), but I would first t

Re: Learning curve

2004-04-15 Thread Daniel Kasak
Mike T. Caskey wrote: Hi all! I'm wondering if anyone can help me find out how much time/training is needed to accomplish my task using MySQL. My background: I'm fresh to the world of MySQL and databases in general. I do have some fundamental knowledge in the area of programming and database