camping man
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What would be good for a small business on a single computer. To get Access you need the whole MS Business suite, and I'm sure Oracle is a pretty big suite too. Also, on Oracle you can download it for free, but I'm not sure how functional it is being free.
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The_Vintagers
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Would Excel suit your requirement? A form for data fill-in can be created fast, and reports can have as much or as little as you define.
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you might want to take a look at Filemaker if you want more HP than Excel supplies. Easy to build databases very powerful if you need it.
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You may want to look at OpenOffice (openoffice.org). The suite of applications (free) includes a database utility. Maybe it will do what you need, and the price is right!
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camping man
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I'm not sure if it would, I've created tables and such with Access, but that was in school. My business is a repair business, and I'd need to know what the status of a particular item is at any time, and if the status changed, it would go to a store with items of the same status(estimate,backorder,repair,not started. Also I need a query were as with the customers name,phone number,or invoice number, it would be able to find the table where the item is stored. It's all for a single user computer, so I really don't need multi user software,or a whole office suite, but I guess that's how it's being sold these days. Thanks, I'll look into Open Office.
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Another vote for OpenOffice and their Base database tool. It has much of the functionality of Access - wizards and all - without the price tag.
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You can buy Access alone (see link). I agree, you should look into Open Office. You should also look into packages such as Quick Books, that may be what you want without any database work. Why reinvent something that already works?
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mooreadventures
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Yeah, I would say MS Access or OpenOffice.
My perference is MS Access - I do a lot of Office Integration and that's what I'm used to... but I do understand the cost factor.
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Burp wrote: You should also look into packages such as Quick Books, that may be what you want without any database work. Why reinvent something that already works? I agree, Quick Books is a pretty powerful program for small to medium business. You'd do well to take a look at it if you're not familiar.
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Most likely OpenOffice will work for you but you might also look at MySQL which is an opensource database.
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