Re: Designing a structure for a personal database

On Apr 29, 9:35 am, David Segall <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Martin Gregorie <mar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:33:58 +0000, David Segall wrote:
>
> >> Thank you for the hint. Your hint indicates that you don't need a
> >> crystal ball to understand my requirements and that you may have some
> >> useful advice. Why are you so reluctant to give it to me?
>
> >Because he gave you the best possible advice already. To amplify what
Ed
> >said:
>
> You and Ed have provided excellent answers to a question that I did
> not ask.
>
> I assumed that most people who read this group would use a computer to
> store the type of personal information that I outlined in my second
> paragraph. I hoped that they had used one of the unwieldy address
> books that come with most popular PIMs and email clients and they had
> thought about a better way of organizing the data.
>
> Perhaps I provided too much information about the way I saw the
> problem and its complications. I should just have asked how you would
> model the data for _your_ personal information database.

If you want to see how different people manage the trade offs, try
googling for open source projects.

I'm not trying to be mean, but I'm not working on a PIM (my PALM PDA
works just fine, thanks. The phone contacts list could use some
work!). I'm too busy with half a dozen other projects to get into a
long discussion about a PIM database. Maybe someone else can take up
the discussion.

Or start by showing what you would do. We can toss in suggestions. But
I honestly don't have the time to come up with a design of my own
right now.

Have a good day.
    Ed