I hear you, and I have far less the education than you do. What are you trying to learn? For me, I'm working to learn a new database application, and figure out the "updated" versions of four other apps. this summer to write training manuals for my teachers.
I'm working in Access for the first time, if you can believe it, for an analysis and report I've never done before. I have to edit queries to cover the various idiosyncrasies of each school. The one that kept me up late last night allowed 17 data columns for "athletic interest" when one or two would have been fine.
I get overwhelmed with the GUI interface and prefer writing code. It's so different working in a database environment from the one I am more accustomed to with my financial aid projects.
Ugh, you have no idea how much I despise databases. It's my one weak spot when it comes to technology. I just got used to the bare minimum I had to do in Access for my old job, and now I have to learn File Maker for far more than the bare minimum. [insert eye roll]
I've always been far enough up the food chain to get data from a query-person. I don't have a lot of query experience, and what little I do have is with PeopleSoft.
It just seems to be a very inefficient tool for a lot of the data manipulation and reporting we do.
Trop, it's big for Macs, which is what we have where I work (and in most schools in this corner of the country). They don't make Access for the Mac, unfortunately.
BTW, I second Syd that I'm sure you'll master this.
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I hear you, and I have far less the education than you do. What are you trying to learn? For me, I'm working to learn a new database application, and figure out the "updated" versions of four other apps. this summer to write training manuals for my teachers.
Old dogs, new tricks...
I'm working in Access for the first time, if you can believe it, for an analysis and report I've never done before. I have to edit queries to cover the various idiosyncrasies of each school. The one that kept me up late last night allowed 17 data columns for "athletic interest" when one or two would have been fine.
I get overwhelmed with the GUI interface and prefer writing code. It's so different working in a database environment from the one I am more accustomed to with my financial aid projects.
Ugh, you have no idea how much I despise databases. It's my one weak spot when it comes to technology. I just got used to the bare minimum I had to do in Access for my old job, and now I have to learn File Maker for far more than the bare minimum. [insert eye roll]
They still make Filemaker?
I've always been far enough up the food chain to get data from a query-person. I don't have a lot of query experience, and what little I do have is with PeopleSoft.
It just seems to be a very inefficient tool for a lot of the data manipulation and reporting we do.
Old dog, new tricks, eh?
You're a smart "old dog" though. You'll master it in no time.
Trop, it's big for Macs, which is what we have where I work (and in most schools in this corner of the country). They don't make Access for the Mac, unfortunately.
BTW, I second Syd that I'm sure you'll master this.
I use Filemaker all the time. I LOVE it. Even if it is archaic....
I have to keep track of nearly 7000 documents, and several thousand journal articles and Filemaker is my hero.....
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