donh wrote:
>
> Not sure I can expand much on my previous post. I think my needs are
> very lightweight. My company works within the community where there
> is at present a mix of paper and computer based information with paper
> based forms being completed whilst with the public and then turned
> into computer data later. Its very similar to having customer contact
> both in your office and in their premises. With the advent of
> technology we now have some laptop computers which we could use to
> lookup information and add to as necessary. We just need a workable
> mechanism to run it over. The largest form is a premises survey which
> spans a dozen or so pages and requires some calculation. They are
> currently excel spreadsheets.
>
> Is MySQL OK for this type of thing?

Sure it will work nicely with MySQL, with some kind of frontend that
makes it easy for the user to navigate among the data and insert new data.

I'm quite sure you project will be a lot more simple than Google and the
seem to work really well with MySQL.

PS. I would place the letters M and S in front of "SQL Server" and "SQL"
when talking about the the product from that company in US, or there
could be someone who might think you talk about things in general.


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//Aho