Hello, I use Base EVERY DAY! I mentioned before that I manage a wind band and this means storing info about pieces of music, players, arrangers, business contacts, uniforms, attendance at practices and performances (for statistical and money reasons), supporting members, musical programmes and many more things. For zillions of reasons (such as only storing pieces of information once and ONLY once as against scattering info (such as names, addresses, telephone numbers or e-mail addresses) across dozens of spreadsheets), databases are the logical way to go. Base is one of the indispensable links between the pieces of the puzzle.
So - I use Writer, Calc and Base in an integrated way every day and couldn't imagine leaving out ANY of the pieces of the puzzle. Regards H. S. On Tue, 13 May 2014 21:13:33 +0200, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> wrote:
On 05/13/2014 02:29 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:Actually, no one has yet to respond that primarily uses Base. You would probably say that I don't either considering the amount of time that I use Writer. Yet, my primary use of LibreOffice is writing what should become the future Base Guide. I am also experimenting with Base to see all of the things that it can do. Then there are the personal uses I have for Base. The purpose of a database is to store data and then access or manipulate the date to obtain information that is needed. Just some of the databases that I use includes Bible study, schedules, grocery lists, medical tests, financial (income and expenses), calories consumed (amount by food type, record of the over a period of time), and utility consumption including statistics about it. the queries in these databases can reveal quite a bit of information.Dan, Thanks for the ideas about Base. I've used it for arranging and printing mailing lists, but I haven't gone beyond that. I can only imagine what I'm missing by doing something manually that might be better done with Base. I'm intrigued in how you use it for Bible study. My Sunday school notes are typically a mass of disconnected thoughts written in Writer. If Base can help organize this, I'd love to learn it. I look forward to your Base Guide Virgil
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