Re: Looking for non techie tools
From: Jane Williams <jane_at_williams.nildram.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 19:10:02 GMT
Message-ID: <3b421820.1019775_at_pubnews.netcom.net.uk>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 19:10:02 GMT
Message-ID: <3b421820.1019775_at_pubnews.netcom.net.uk>
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:56:46 -0700, "Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote:
>Hanan Cohen wrote:
>> A good example of such a tool can be found it Yahoo Groups.
>Also, you do seem to have contradicted yourself. If such a tool exists on
>Yahoo ... by all means have at it.
>
The Yahoo tool produces flat file "databases", which can be sorted by any column. The only data type appears to be text. As a trivial tool with which users can't hurt themselves, it's fine. But it isn't a relational database. It isn't even a spreadsheet used as a database. Received on Tue Jul 03 2001 - 21:10:02 CEST