TSGL: suitable database

[Ian Ramsey-Planck]

I wouldn't recommend Excel. I used to use Excel when doing hockey
evaluations and had to input 500 kids names and the scores they got. Then by
accident I clicked a column header, and the flaw with Excel is it doesn't
lock rows with columns.

So if you sort a column, only that columns information is moved around and
the others just stay there.

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Ron Brunton
Sent: December 1, 2007 10:10 AM
To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'
Subject: Re: TSGL: suitable database

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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