<VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY + database ?

[J R Read]

I've got Access, but have not used it enough to feel comfortable with it.

NOT everyone has it, so, Excel seemed more like it would be more widely
used - to me anyway.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Lee" <Chaz at ProperProper.com>
To: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Tony
Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY + database ?


> What format is currently used, importing it to a database format (MS
> Access ?) would make it eminently more manageable, and searchable, and
> sortable, so that different models could be selected to provide the
> different lists, without keeping duplicate records ?
>
> Does anyone who is doing it now know database, or have MS Office with (any
> version of) MS Access database ?
>
> Database format is slightly harder to get started, but much easier to use
> once it's set up, and would give much more functionality than Excel (which
> is easy to start up, but a nightmare to maintain) with considerably less
> effort.
>
> Any volunteers ?
>
> If not, email me the '69, Lakewood, Spyder, EM, LM, etc, lists (in Excel,
> CSV, ASCII, Word, or whatever you have), and I'll convert them to a single
> database format for you.
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:31 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY +
>
>
>> Maybe it is time to establish/up-date a registry for ALL years?
>>
>> I'm willing to offer my time to work on that.  Hopefully the existing
>> registries would contribute without feeling usurped.  An Excel format
>> would
>> be helpful - or at least a delimited ASCI file (I think they call that
>> CSV
>> now).
>>
>> Later, JR
>> CCE CORSA CORVANANTICS SCG member
>> '61 Rampside Standard 4/110
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>> "Keep the Love Alive"
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:47 AM
>> Subject: Re: <VV> CORVAIR REGISTRY & VINs from eBay, Craigs List,
>> Hemmings,
>> etc ?
>>
>>
>>> At 07:14 PM 9/27/2010, J R Read wrote:
>>>>I'm pretty sure that there has been a '69 registry for years.
>>>>Later, JR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is, and the three '69's here are in it.
>>>
>>> Since Mark's passing, I'm not terribly sure who's maintaining it...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> tony..
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