[78-L] 78 database [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

What is this date?  Probably/possibly Sept 11, 1912.  The Hungarians use thiw form, and I'm sure others do too.  My citizen ID no. here in BG begins with birthdate, yymmdd.

Mike in Plovdiv 

--- On Wed, 7/7/10, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78 database
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 3:38 AM
> Say,  Steven,  I'm still
> waiting to hear the details about those c. 1934 
> sides Billie Holiday recorded for Decca,  to which you
> referred the other 
> day.
> 
> Your reply awaited;  my breath is baited....can your
> veracity be 
> demonstrated?
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78 database
> 
> 
> > From: "David Palmquist" <davidpalmquist at dccnet.com>
> >> Hi David
> >> Rhetorical question:  What is this
> date?  12/09/11
> >> For dates, I suggest using 4 digits for the year
> and 2 digits for the
> >> month and date to facilitate sorting.  If you
> plan to share
> >> information, using the metric format might be
> wise: 1939-07-??
> >> The mm/dd/yy format is primarily an American form;
> other English
> >> speaking countries use dd/mm/yy, or flipflop
> between the two, so your
> >> database may not be shareable with us
> foreigners.  You'll receive
> >> information in various formats, increasing the
> work involved in
> >> importing the data.
> >> For the missing information, just an alphabetical
> character would do
> >> instead of a question mark or asterisk: 
> 1939-07-dd  or 1939-07-xx.
> >>
> > I substitute "99" for date items if I don't have the
> actual data. This
> > allows
> > "unknown" items to be grouped at the end of a month or
> even year!
> > Note, however, that many database apps will NOT allow
> such entries;
> > I was doing this in text-based "random access" data
> files (which is
> > essentially what the "Abrams Files" contain).
> >
> >> I haven't figured out how to get a usable huge
> database onto a
> >> webpage yet.  If you've got thousands of rows
> of data, html sortable
> >> tables don't work well.  I don't know how to
> upload a user-friendly
> >> database that can't be interfered with by
> visitors.  Any ideas?
> >>
> > Try to find a copy of MS Access 97; that was the most
> web-capable
> > version of this well-known database application! It is
> also possible
> > to insert the requisite HTML in text-based data files
> manually;
> > AFAIK this is how Ty S created his discographic web
> facility...?!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
> >
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