TSGL: suitable database

[Lee Bunyard]

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Lee in the Mountains of Northern California  

Ron Brunton wrote:
> Would Excel (or another spreadsheet) do the job for you? Excel has some very
> elaborate ways of displaying data and it does accept comma delimited data.
> Each row is a record and each column is a field. The data filters can be
> used for very complicated searchs.
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Engineman1 at aol.com
> Sent: December-01-07 2:37 AM
> To: List at tsgserver.com
> Subject: TSGL: suitable database
>
> I am looking for a suitable database. For about 3 years now I've been  
> working on a project where I've been collecting info on solving computer  
> problems.My sources are Kim Kommando, Fred Langa, TSGL, RCM and several
> computer  
> magazines. I have 875 entry's. I"ve entered my data into a M/S Works
> database  using 
> fields called: problem,-description,-solution 1,-solution 2,-solution  
> 3,-more info. It has proven to be a mistake because I can only search for
> one or  2 
> words at a time using clumsy filters. I don't like getting into querys and  
> reports because I don't understand them that well. I would like to type in  
> something like "how to do a repair installation of windows XP" and have it
> go  
> right to the entry rather than coming up with every mention of XP or repair.
>
> I've tried Google desktop and M/S desktop and wasn't happy with the results.
>
> I've seen databases that might have done the job but each item would have to
> be  
> entered separately. I would like to have a program that I can feed my data 
> into  in comma delimited or space delimited .doc or .html form and have it 
> searched.  Any inexpensive ideas?
> Engineman
>
>
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