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inexpensive relational DBM

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From: John Tsang
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1989 17:37
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Among those inexpensive databases:  Reflex+, Reflex for the
    Mac (Are they the same?), File, FileMaker, DBM in Works,
    Panorama, DAtabase, Record for the xxxxx, etc., which ones
    are relational type?
            (I think) I need a relational DBM, because it is for
    a company personnel records, which need a file for the
    application data, a file for the hiring data (W2, State W2,
    Payroll form, I-9, etc.), a file for Absence, No-Show, Late,
    ..... etc., a file for daily performance checklist, a file
    for Sales &/or # of customers handled each night, a file for
    hours worked per week &/or per day -- to keep track of the
    full-time employees, and, a file about med. insurance given.
            Oftentimes, it is essential, for example, to search
    who has been full-time but hasn't given the med. insurance,
    or, who has dropped to part-time but still hasn't been
    cancelled insurance; or, to check the Performance Checklist
    (file) against the Sales &/or # of customers records -- to
    check if the employees are good in sales, efficiency,
    service and other duties & performance.  Thus, it needs to cross search
    several files simultanously.  [It probably may be too slow
    to put all the data of one person in one record in one
    file.]  (By the way, it is for a restaurant with about 70-50
    employees -- and will expand to 100 in the near future.)

I don't want to incur the expenses and time on heavy-duty
    DBM software, such as, Foxbase, Double Helix, 4th Dimension,
    dbMac, etc.
            However, I'm not eliminating to consider them, if
    it's necessary.

Or, I actually don't need a relational database.

(Both database for the Mac or pc are suitable:  we have access to both
systems -- however, preferably for the Mac.)

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From: jgt@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (John Tsang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.databases,aus.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: inexpensive relational DBM
Summary: relational databases for restaurant personnel record & performance
Keywords: relational databases, Reflex, graphical (& statistical) databases
Message-ID: <4818@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 89 17:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: jgt@uhccux.UUCP (John Tsang)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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