Re: Help creating a database

Fred,

I followed the 2nd link to get to your post.

To the best of my knowledge there is no "sugar teat" that will allow
people to have unambiguous and reliable information about Access
developers or software developers of any other kind nor for any kind
of vendor on Earth. "Caveat Emptor!" (Let the buyer beware) has
always been the first step toward enlightened commerce. There is no
way to relieve anyone from the burden of due diligence. They can do
their best to perform every step of authentication and verification
themselves or pay others to do so or rely on rating agencies. "Caveat
emptor" still applies; who watches the watchers?

In my long post in this thread to Steve I referred him to Elance,
RentACoder and GetAFreelancer. The first two provide means for buyers
and sellers to report on their experiences in a transaction and
RentACoder will also include information about anything that came to
arbitration and the specifics of the outcome.

Beyond that it may be possible to purchase insurance based on cost and
outcome. It has been said that someone at Lloyds of London will
insure anything but that doesn't mean that you'll like the costs of
doing business with them. I'd imagine that the transaction costs and
overheads for them to perform *their* due diligence would forestall
insurance on projects with a cost below several hundred thousand
dollars. They would likely also become a noisy 3rd party and impose
performance constraints on the other two parties.

A universal database of all transactions everywhere is presently
beyond the realm of practical realization. Thanks be for that!
Otherwise, Big Brother (big government and big business) would be all
over it.

HTH
--
-Larry-
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"Fred" <Fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Access is a powerful platform upon whcih you can build solutions for
most
database applications. First you have to decide if you want to
learn Access.

- if so, to start doing so. Once you get a little start, you could
repost
and get and be able to utilize help on a table structure (the
foundation) for
your application.

- if not, you might try a canned application/software. The most
applicable
ones to your application might be a contact management / CRM
software.
Common economical ones are ACT! and Goldmine. Or pay someone to
develop it
on Access for you. Theres a little bit on this at


http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.access&tid=fad73bfc-4a72-4533-9750-a8e8cfb6c755&cat=&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&p=1

Fred








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"Chuck" wrote:

Hello,

I am looking to make a database to help me manage 20 managers that
report to
me. I want something where I can click on a location and it will
allow me to
type notes about my location visits with them. I woudl also like
the ability
to print the data by location. I have only even run access ONE
time, but was
told this was the way to go. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks!!!

(I posted this in another spot that was incorrect, sorry for the
duplication!)


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