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- From: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle)
- Subject: Biographical/Historical database?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.192710.15691@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:27:10 GMT
- Organization: Illinois State University
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- I'm not sure how to describe this but...I've got a user who whould like a
- database system to track biographical and historical type information. The
- data she has collected does not fit well into the typical database structure;
- some of it does but one part in particular is pretty much free form text.
- This text is biographical or historcal in nature. I'm familiar with dBase and
- in those terms a memo field would be the closest thing. The probem with
- memo fields is manipulating and printing them out...they are also not big
- enough. Any body got any ideas as to a database which might handle this kind
- of information best? Thanks!
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