In need of a simple database

Do you folks use MS Office? Access is not that difficult of a database. Our school uses it to track our inventory, and our student administration program is based on it as well.

You should try using MS OFFICE. Microsoft Access is very easy to use. Simply open a blank DB and then use the built in Wizards that Access provides to create a DB based on your needs. It is very simple to use, all you have to is follow the instructions. If you decide to do this and you have any questions about Access during your attempt at creating the DB. You can ask me, im quite familiar with Access.

There was a program by Symantec Corporation
ACT! 4.0. It was designed to do exactly what you want. http://www.symantec.com

If you dont use MS office then try PARADOX from Corel Corp (used to be part of Wordperfect suite) - that's very easy to use and setup.

Another alternative ( and very cheap ) is Pwerflex - but for this you need programmer to set it up)

Keep in mind that, even for fairly complicated databases, that anything that can be stored in a database can be replicated in a spreadsheet. The old rule of thumb was that you could do it with a spreadsheet as long as all the data fit in RAM with the program running. You lose nice features like error checking for referential integrity, but spreadsheet programs are common. You can write spreadsheet macros that do the same as database queries. I did both for a bank for six years, back when...

Dear nhughes@yakult.co.uk
Since it appears that you do not have a version of MS Office that contains Access. Try going to; www.nonags.com. Use the search
option in the left pane and look for
"database". You may be surprised at the number of different database programs that are available for different purposes. Furthermore, most of them are Freeware.
Let me know if this helps.

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