I’m the Facilities Engineer on a Forest the size of Vermont on which there are about 400 hundred buildings. Most of the buildings were built by the CCC work crews in the 1930s. So, maintenance is a continuous and ongoing issue.
I want a Micrsoft Access database for facilities management. There used to be one on the Microsoft website, but I can’t find it.
Does anyone have one they will share.
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You doing this as a private contractor, govt. employee, or volunteer? Not being nosy, but it does seem to me the govt oughta be providing that kind of software.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
Dinosaur, you have obviously never worked for the government.
They are so computer security concious that it would take two years of paperwork and appeals, to get them to buy an off the shelf piece of software that won't do what I want. Or, eight years of waiting for them to select contractor to write custom software, that wouldn't do what I want, but would charge me for every time I tried to use it.
So, for practicle purposes, it will be far easier to set up a database I can administer.
LOL.
In that case, all I can think of is that Microsoft 'Works' --the WP package you get 'free' with most OEM-installed XP OSs--has a database in it. Don't know if it'll do what you want, but it's there.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Great...I can't wait till they are administering all of our health non-care.
This is how we end up with a government that has 2,000 bookkeeping systems that do not talk to each other.
I know a guy who tried to consolidate the DBMS's in the USDA into a few standard systems. He worked there 30 years and there were 10 times more more when he left than there were when he started.