[Rockhounds] Database template?

[J Bryan Kramer]

Access is fine as a database tool, just so long as you use it as a one user
personal database. If you ever try to use it as a multiple user database.
More than one person at a time that uses it. Then you will have grief in
store for you. The rule among programmers is that Access is a multiuser
database so long as n=1

BK

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 16:18, Rik Dillen <rik.dillen at skynet.be> wrote:

> There has been a discussion much longer ago, like 5-6 years ago !
> Anyway, I have built my database many years ago, when DBase2+ was priced
> something like 1500 USD...
> I upgraded to DBase 4, and later on I imported everything in Access,
> version after version, now Access 2007.
> BUT - as the set up of my database is almost 20 years old, and I did
> nothing but upgrading every time as it was, the
> final result is a database that still works, but that does not make use at
> all of modern technology and software.
> I can recommend Access anyway to build a specimens database, but it's
> better to start from scrap than from my template.
>
> Greetings, and good luck.
>
> Rik DILLEN
> Doornstraat 15,  B-9170 Sint-Gillis-Waas
> Belgium
> E-mail rik.dillen at skynet.be
> Homepage : http://users.skynet.be/rik.dillen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com [mailto:
> rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Julie Siebel
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:10 PM
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> Subject: [Rockhounds] Database template?
>
> John was asking me about putting pictures/mineral information in MS Access
> (we have Access 2003). He swears there was a long discussion about that on
> the list in the past six months, but I can't find it. (I may be being
> deceived by the email headers - lol - but I *am* searching.) Anyone
> remember
> when that happened?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julie
>
>
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J Bryan Krämer
North Florida, USA
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