Ah but at one point in the early 1990's they just about gave away DBase III with a floppy disk tucked into a back pocket of every text book. DBase IV box was handy, if only for propping my office door open.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 31 May 2011 12:10, Mark Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msc@luther.vic.edu.au">msc@luther.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">They had a restricted version that was free for schools.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The alternatives were costly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mark Scott</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Luther College</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark KELLY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 31 May 2011 12:01 PM</span></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] this database thread again....</div>
</div><p></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt">Does anyone still use FoxPro? I used it in the old IPM SAC days, early 90s - <b><span style="color:red">can't remember why on I chose it...</span></b><br>
Maybe because it was there. <br><br>From memory, it was quite nice to use.<br><br></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">On 31 May 2011 11:34, Kent Beveridge <<a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</p>
<div><div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Andrew...Dbase..yep used that too! DbIV. (blue screen white font...). I actually did enjoy that program dare I say it.</span></p><p style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">ok..so I'm a dinosaur..but I like being a dinosaur!!! </span></p><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">KB.</span></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:blue;background:white">Kent Beveridge</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#3366FF">ICT Co-ordinator, St.Brigids CSC, HORSHAM,Vic,Aus.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#3366FF"><a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
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</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] on behalf of Andrew Shortell [<a href="mailto:shortell@get2me.net" target="_blank">shortell@get2me.net</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 28 May 2011 7:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] this database thread again....</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">Hi Kent </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:black">Yes I remember doing that in cobol also. I have used sql, access, dbase 3, dbase 4, filemaker in quite a few versions, , hated doing database activities in spreadsheets esp using microsloth products on the dark side</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">At least you can pay bills online at the moment - my credit card is gone thanks to being cancelled due to fraudulent activity - might be ten days before I see the new one. </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">I have actually used cash to pay for petrol - felt very weird.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">Database stuff - there are always new people to convert to the light -- "to normalise" so it is wonderful to revive an old old thread again now we feel "normal" (ised)</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">Andrew</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Chalkboard","serif";color:black">Andrew Shortell</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">Heidelberg Teaching Unit in 2011</span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">On 28/05/2011, at 4:54 PM, Kent Beveridge wrote:</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"><br>
<br></span></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">are we still yappin about this old chestnut again????</span></p></div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">Who upset Mark this time!!?? lol.</span></p></div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:black">ok...so what about the OpenOffice people?? Oops..almost forgot those fruit loving vegetarians(Apple Mac users).</span></p></div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">And just for a curve ball with a last minute left dip..I wrote a database years ago using COBOL. It ordered, sorted, colored, columned and printed but didnt make coffee, order lunch for you or park your car!! (it used a good ol comma delimited data file too)</span></p>
</div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">oh how I love these chats...puts a smile on my dial...</span></p></div>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">your turn now...</span></p></div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">hehehehe...</span></p></div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:black">(me? I've used Access, Clipper, Oracle. Have OpenOffice on my home box(saves $$ and space!) and no, I havent used FileMaker, so cant comment on it. </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:black">Oh, yeah, we also must remember that DB apps can be made with spreadsheets too...just to throw a fly in the ointment here.)</span></p></div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">......must be time to put the kettle on! Got no money left, just paid some bills online.....oh, and told an e-marketing crew to go jump!</span></p>
</div><p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:blue">Kent Beveridge</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
</div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#3366FF">ICT Co-ordinator, St.Brigids CSC, HORSHAM,Vic,Aus.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#3366FF"><a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 28 May 2011 11:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] (no subject)</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div><div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">oh no!</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">so who don't they laugh at?</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">{:-|</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:black">----- Original Message -----</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au" title="kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">Mark KELLY</a></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">To:</span></b><span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au" title="itapps@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List</a></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Saturday, May 28, 2011 11:15 AM</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<b><span style="color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] (no subject)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">People might laugh at Access users, but think of us Filemaker users.<br><br>In the street, dogs laugh at us, children bite us, and accountants poke us with sticks :-(</span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">On 27 May 2011 19:51, Jenny Gielb <<a href="mailto:Tafe@imaginethis.biz" target="_blank">Tafe@imaginethis.biz</a>> wrote:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:black">Hi,<br>A lot of IT people laugh at MS Access, they view it as puny and inconsequential. As someone who has made quite a bit of money out of developing MS Access databases for many different businesses, I laugh at them.<br>
It is not as secure or reliable as SQL or MYSQL, or as relevant in terms of internet development but it is a very powerful tool. It has the benefit of being already available to anyone with Office, it has a fantastic GUI interface which PHP, .NET, VB, Crystal Reports and SQL do not have. It also has everything in the one package, which none of the others have. It is basically the best available software to train anyone in databases and system development. Once a student understands the concepts of database design, VBA code and front-end screen development, they can easily pick up any other database tool.<br>
I agree, it would be more beneficial to teach the students web-based coding and databases, but that is very complex, is changing constantly, and there is so many choices there that you can't decide what to use.<br>I think teaching them the basics of databases and websites is more important, they can take it further if they want later.<br>
<br>As an Access developer I have never ever, and wouldn't ever use drop-down boxes on tables. Drop-down boxes are for forms and data entry. Don't confuse the issue. Tables are for storing data, forms are for entering and displaying, reports are for displaying data. You have to set up basic forms for data entry anyway.<br>
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