<VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY + database ?

[Charles Lee]

Right, plus some versions of Office do not even have Access database, and 
some teachers who teach MS Office at the college level, skip over it, 
because they don't "get it" (although that's not what they'll tell you, just 
that they "didn't get around to it" or something like that)

My feeling is that Excel is popular because it's so easy to get started, but 
it becomes a nightmare if you try to get complicated.

A database is a "nightmare" (for most people) to get started but becomes 
simple to use once it's set up.

People do not generally like to do that much work "up front" so they use 
Excel until they go crazy.

If the person who is doing the data entry has it, they can export the info 
to Excel format for everyone else's more specific lists, by exporting just 
wagons, or vans, or anything else that is identifiable.

If you have any of this, or know someone who does, I'd like to give it a try 
?
Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Charles Lee" <Chaz at ProperProper.com>
Cc: "VirtualVairs AA" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:54 PM
Subject: CORVAIR REGISTRY + database ?


> I've got Access, but have not used it enough to feel comfortable with it.
>
> NOT everyone has it, so, Excel seemed more like it would be more widely
> used - to me anyway.
>
> Later, JR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Lee" <Chaz at ProperProper.com>
> To: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Tony
> Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:46 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY + database ?
>
>
>> What format is currently used, importing it to a database format (MS
>> Access ?) would make it eminently more manageable, and searchable, and
>> sortable, so that different models could be selected to provide the
>> different lists, without keeping duplicate records ?
>>
>> Does anyone who is doing it now know database, or have MS Office with 
>> (any
>> version of) MS Access database ?
>>
>> Database format is slightly harder to get started, but much easier to use
>> once it's set up, and would give much more functionality than Excel 
>> (which
>> is easy to start up, but a nightmare to maintain) with considerably less
>> effort.
>>
>> Any volunteers ?
>>
>> If not, email me the '69, Lakewood, Spyder, EM, LM, etc, lists (in Excel,
>> CSV, ASCII, Word, or whatever you have), and I'll convert them to a 
>> single
>> database format for you.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: <VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY +
>>
>>
>>> Maybe it is time to establish/up-date a registry for ALL years?
>>>
>>> I'm willing to offer my time to work on that.  Hopefully the existing
>>> registries would contribute without feeling usurped.  An Excel format
>>> would
>>> be helpful - or at least a delimited ASCI file (I think they call that
>>> CSV
>>> now).
>>>
>>> Later, JR
>>> CCE CORSA CORVANANTICS SCG member
>>> '61 Rampside Standard 4/110
>>> '65 Monza Convertible 4/140
>>> "Keep the Love Alive"
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>>> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:47 AM
>>> Subject: Re: <VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY & VINs from eBay, Craigs List,
>>> Hemmings,
>>> etc ?
>>>
>>>
>>>> At 07:14 PM 9/27/2010, J R Read wrote:
>>>>>I'm pretty sure that there has been a '69 registry for years.
>>>>>Later, JR
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is, and the three '69's here are in it.
>>>>
>>>> Since Mark's passing, I'm not terribly sure who's maintaining it...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> tony..
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