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[astroman]

On 2004-08-11 05:28, legros wrote:
... ahem, time to get back to work

Legros, your original message hit me right in the middle of a 20 hour non stop struggle with some Oracle bs I HAVE to get right - and fast, it's bloody overdue.
kind of a nice interuption

cheers, Tom

ps a donkey and a sheep are a strange couple, indeed

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[BingoTheClowno]

Hey Astroman, what's the easiest way to implement a database on a home computer for let's say various text, html, pdf etc files that does not require a server to run in the background. I have lots of information (in different files) that I would like to organize and make easy to search (kinda like a local Google on my PC ).
MySQL is not free anymore I think.

[astroman]

Atari 800

but seriously - without a server, how do you want to search ?
the topic you mention is called asset management today (wtf invents those names ?) and not that easy if your documents' structure varies a lot (and deeply) and you want to search inside those details.

For simplicity it's certainly Filemaker, though the last version I had my hands on is years old...

If you want it interesting with some fun, I'd check out one of those 'Object-Relational Databases'.

My personal favourite for such tasks - and btw the true reason for the Oracle 'wrestling', is the Prolog language - but it's definetely NOT easy.

My current project is to transfer a C-written Oracle application to that language, driven by a web interface and connecting images and text.
Fairly similiar to what you have in mind

My problem is that I need a certain type of data dump, which was easy a couple of years back, but it's obviously very version specific.
I can't remember the numbers I used back then - it was so simple that I didn't even make some notes ha, ha...

cheers, Tom

[BingoTheClowno]

Thanks , I'll check the Filemaker.
I've heard about Prolog but never used, I can't say anything about it.