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Re: “As for BASE . . . I really don't have a need for it.”
I learned Access this year. I became "good enough" anyway to create the media database I needed. I also wrote and inserted a small Visual Basic script to check, whenever I entered a new book title, whether it's already in the system. If found, the script tells me how many times it was found so I can tag the current one as being, for instance, copy #4. It works like a charm.

The point is, I'd have majorly struggled with this small database if I hadn't bought a really good text that walked me, a novice, through the construction of something similar. In fact, it was a FOR DUMMIES book - of which I'm now a huge fan.

Good luck finding "really good texts" for BASE. I doubt they exist.

Also, if you think learning a database is comparable in difficulty to learning Excel or Word, think again. Access was *MUCH* harder.








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Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office
By: Zimbler0
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Mon, 21 Nov 22 6:49 AM
Msg. 37632 of 60008

Naaah. A guru I never was.

I did write an inventory database program. In Access. Fairly simple. It kept track of all the shop spare parts, where they were, how many we had . . . Nothing gnarly in it.

A managers wife, once upon a time, had written the shop a 'Shop Log'. Where we would enter data on what repairs or maintenance we had done . . . Useful if everybody put the data in. Not everybody did.

Every time the company upgraded Microsoft Office I had to upgrade and test our databases. Sometimes it was easy, sometimes it wasn't. One of the bigger headaches was 'linked tables'.

I had a good time using Access to create forms with text boxes in them. I'd put numbers into the boxes then use Visual Basic to fish the numbers into the program, do some math on them then print the results back into the text boxes.

Then I got into Python programming.

And now that I'm retired that is slipping away from me.

As for BASE . . . I really don't have a need for it.

Zim.


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