Re: Re: Databases--MS Access

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil A Mogensen" <neilm@charter.net>
To: "Iris-talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 06 January 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: [iris] Re: Databases--MS Access


> Access would allow me to put in a field for photo, but I've never
bothered.  I
> just keep a set of files I label "pics" and "seedlings," plus smaller
files
> for Siberians and one for other people's photos of ones I find
interesting.
> I've gotten in the habit of attaching to the file name the source of the
> photo, usually the name of the photographer or owner.

You could just put a "photo" field in Access, as a text field, and it would
contain a link to the location in your Pics file.<G> Keeping the photos
themselves in the Access db will drastically slow down its performance and
increase the file size. I learned this the hard way.

> My problem (and I figure I'm hardly alone in this) is that I keep finding
new
> things about which to get interested or excited.  "Keep it simple" gets
lost
> in the shuffle too easily, but there just isn't any more grass I can dig
up.

That's my problem, too, which is why I have Access databases for irises,
records and CDs, stuffed animals...even cat pedigrees. That one is the
largest of all, with about 77,000 records and a lot of code that I can't
believe I wrote! <G> Yup, I have to re-learn Access too, when I want to
change something.

Cheryl Leigh

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