Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roy Feldman wrote: > > I am trying to set up a achieving system for a large picture base, I would > like to have a searchable data base thet would include date , subject , > photographer, location. as well as a thumbnail. Can anyone point me in the > right direction? Roy, I'd like to be an achiever too but it will take more than a database to do the trick ;-) I think there's at least one commercial readymade product out there, but this could also be done pretty easily, and without much prior experience using an ordinary relational database such as Filemaker Pro. The advantage to building your own from a general-purpose product such as this is that you have the ability to expand to a multi-user setup and could integrate the photo datbase to others containing contact and billing info and so forth. But if you do hope to expand to a multi-user setup someday, now's the time to think of what it costs to equip each workstation and server. I have been thinking of creating just such an animal for myself (no billing or contacts), but more as a means of storing my darkroom notes. Because (in this case) it's cheap to experiment and because I don't want to limit future possibilities (huge data files, many users, lots of connected workstations, web browser access) I plan to try it with MySQL or Oracle 8i under Linux. MySQL is very reasonably-priced. Oracle is well, at least cheap to sample. - -- Jeff Segawa Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado