need me one them database thingies

my boss said i need to put all of my spreadsheets into a database.

is this hard?

do databases have an import utility or am I going to have to retype everything?

Is SQL harder than Excel or is it just about the same thing only fancier?

Do you forsee any problems with this approach?the only problem i foresee is that you're in the wrong forum

you want to be looking at Access, not SQL Server

other than that, it's a cakewalk|||i have to admit something kind sir. this is really homework for my 400 level systems srchitecture class this semester.

would you happen to have one of these ERD thingies and a complete project plan I can hand in on Monday. I was supposed to start on this in August, but me and the frat brothers have just been drinking every night and seducing frshmen girls. Been busy.|||Tell your boss that this is unnecessary. Excel is an excellent database itself, and more flexible since it does not impose any "rules" or "constraints" on the data. He'll see the sense in this, I'm sure. ;)|||ah a slow day troll

Maybe Lotus1-2-3|||You guys know that somebody is bound to take you seriously, and might even try to make sense of this drivel.

-PatP|||Well, an ERD (or Entity relationship Diagram) just shows how entities relate to each other. This is really just a family tree kind of concept. Google around for a copy of Thomas Jefferson's family tree, and use that for your assignment. As for the project plan, hardly anyone uses those in the "real world" it seems. it is unlikely that your professor has actually seen one outside of an academic setting. The one thing you need to know about making a project plan is that all project plans have one thing in common. A PowerPoint presentation. This one has been popular for some time, and should get you the grade you deserve in this class:

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm|||So does that mean that ERDs are inherantly more complex in Kentucky?

If I build a project plan with only one step, failure, is that complete or is a prelimnary step required in a project plan?

Sooo many decisions! Now I see why those data guys get paid so much.

-PatP|||Easy... Print off your spreadsheets on to paper and file them away in your filing cabinet. That's just and old skool database, isn't it! You'll probably get high marks for research and originality for that one.|||You guys know that somebody is bound to take you seriously, and might even try to make sense of this drivel.

-PatP

don't be a hater, people are trying to help!

;)|||So does that mean that ERDs are inherantly more complex in Kentucky?

bwahahahaha|||Hmm...did someone in here just get a second monitor?

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