riley@ihuxv.ATT.COM (d. riley) (03/04/88)
My brother-in-law has asked me to post the following request for
him. He is a professional photographer and has a Mac Plus.
He is looking for a database management system tailored to the needs
of the professional photographer. He is interested in such things as
being able to organize (list) his proofs and negatives by subject (or
multiple subjects - e.g., a general heading of landscapes which could
be further subdivided into water which could be further subdivided into
ponds, lakes, oceans, etc.; the same for mountains, customers, dates, etc.
Ideally, each negative and proof could be identified with one or more
of those categories. His initial intent is to be able to generate a
list of negatives and proofs which relate to a particular subject,
customer, point of interest, etc. Flexibility in assigning categories
and in performing the search is desirable.
In addition, the database should also contain (and be accessible
by) names, sitting dates, upcoming appointments, negative and proof id
numbers, informational data, etc. Multiple category searching (either
by a single query or via a sequential series of querys (each of which
deals with the output of the previous query) would be desirable.
He is not interested (at all) in programming such a database
system himself. His interest (and time) lie elsewhere. Therefore, he
is looking primarily for existing "ready to go" systems. Any help or
guidance, experiences, recommendations, etc. which anyone listening can
offer would be sincerely appreciated. Additionally, any information
which anyone can provide on organizing such a system would also be
greatly appreciated.
Please respond via email to:
. . . ihnp4!ihuxv!riley
as I am not a regular subscriber to this newsgroup. If there
are sufficient responses, I will post a summary. Thanks in advance
for your interest and responses.
Doug Riley
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