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Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought

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D Finnigan wrote:
> TheJ wrote:
>> europlus wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I've struggled for some time with trying to flesh out some sort of
>>> collection-management database system. After a couple of successful
>>> gatherings at my place and realising I need a better handle on what I
>>> have,
>>> I've decided to start looking into this again.
>>> 
>> 
>> I too have had this desire and also don't the time to do it. I'm an entry
>> level database guy. I make FileMaker DBs as my day job but I'm self
>> taught
>> and really not up to making something that high performance.
>> 
>> I would love to see something that's open to the Internet at large so a
>> COLLECTIVE view of the state of teh Apple 2 community was possible.
>> 
>> I have shared this with someone who definitely has teh knowhow to pull it
>> off.
>> I will leave it to him to comment if he wishes.
> 
> OK, so I too have my own database of Apple equipment and I found a good
> solution was just to give a lot of this old equipment and software away.
> ;-)
> (only half way joking, but seriously, I have been downsizing since fall
> 2014)
> 
> Anyway, I have two systems. One is for everything, and it has a serial
> number, name, price, date received, and description fields (and some
> others
> too that I can't remember now). This is a MySQL database and I use
> phpMyAdmin as the frontend.
> 
> The other system is for all printed matter: books, magazines, manuals.
> This
> is *far* more elaborate as it is an unfinished system for Mac GUI Vault
> (which I hope to finish, maybe in 2016).
> 
> I would be happy to share the database schema for the first system. I
> regret that I probably couldn't put forth the time now to make a dedicated
> front-end, so my offer is probably not really valuable to you.
>

Sharing your schema would be awesome !
This would allow it to be created in any database and cataloged individually
and if/when a "community" database is created, everyone would already have
their collections cataloged using the same schema!

I look forward to seeing the schema :-)

Jason

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Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought europlus <europlus@mcnamaras.id.au> - 2015-07-19 10:39 +0000
  Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought TheJ <thej@shaw.ca> - 2015-07-19 14:53 +0000
    Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-07-21 23:55 +0000
      Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought TheJ <thej@shaw.ca> - 2015-07-22 19:54 +0000
        Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought a2retro <a2retrosystems@gmail.com> - 2015-07-22 21:20 -0700
          Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-07-23 18:21 +1200
            Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought a2retro <a2retrosystems@gmail.com> - 2015-07-23 15:25 -0700
              Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-07-24 18:18 +1200
        Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-07-23 23:14 +0000
          My database schema, was Re: Retro computer collection... D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-07-25 17:01 +0000
            Re: My database schema, was Re: Retro computer collection... Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-07-26 10:42 +1200
  Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-07-20 13:57 +1200
    Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought europlus <europlus@mcnamaras.id.au> - 2015-07-30 07:24 +1000
      Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-07-30 14:09 +1200
        Re: Retro computer collection management database recommendations sought europlus <europlus@mcnamaras.id.au> - 2015-07-30 15:57 +1000

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