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- From: barry@clark.edu (Barry Lieberman)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Which do people like better - DBaseIII+ or DBXL??
- Summary: DBaseIII+, DBXL,which better
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.163930.2884@clark.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:39:30 GMT
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- Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
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- (Not sure, but these 2 newsgroups were the only ones I could think of that
- would be appropriate for my questions about DBXL and DBaseIII+, if not,
- sorry. I also do not read these 2 much, so please email any responses to
- me, thanks.)
-
- I work at a small newspaper and maintain the circulation mailing list.
- When I started working there back in April, the list was kept on a database
- with DBaseIII+. The business manager we had at that time was going to try
- and have me move the database over to DBXL and use that program instead.
- That was not done before he was no longer with the newspaper. Now we have
- a different business manager and wants to use DBXL because we have
- documentation for it and we don't for dBaseIII+, don't know who got the
- copy of dBaseIII+ for us in the first place. I am posting this message
- here to be able to see which program people have a preference to and why.
- I would like to be able to use the response information to show the
- business manager whether or not moving over to DBXL is wise. I will not
- say I should just by the responses I get, but as help on deciding the
- final outcome some.
-
- To let you know what size database I am working with, it has about 7000
- records, having gone up from about 6000 records since last April. It could
- go up another 500 to 1000 by the end of 1993, or even more.
-
- My questions are:
- 1) Does DBXL display information/help onto the screen easier than dBaseIII+?
-
- 2) Which program works well or better with a 7000 to 8000 record database?
-
- 3) I have label format info setup already with dBaseIII+, is it or will it
- be much problem to use them with DBXL?
-
- (and now the real personal questions)
- 4) Which program do you like better? (the more you have used both to be able
- to compare the 2 together, the better)
- Your answer can include which has a better help setup, menu options,
- display to the screen info, anything that can show which is better.
-
- Thank you, I hope the 4 questions above are enough help on how people can tell
- me which database program between DBXL and dBaseIII+ may be better.
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