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Re: RE: [ECS] Database Idea Scott Danks Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:29:11 -0500

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 Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:29:11 -0500
Well, maybe not that complicated.  But, you've gotta admit it would help with some of
our development. . . Haven't you made some routines that have to parse files for entries?
 I really couldnt see any other way to do the telephone number lookup to wav file playback
event.

>>> "Michael David" <michael@michaeldavid.com> 07/06 9:03 AM >>>
Hmmm.....

...ECS with a SQL Server 7 backend.  The mind boggles!  :)

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Pakleppa [mailto:ipakleppa@home.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 12:00 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com; 'ecs-list@netbloc.com' 
Subject: RE: [ECS] Database Idea

Mark could even go one step further and make the events and items database
records.

Ingo

At 08:52 AM 7/5/00 -0700, Martin Terry wrote:
>I think it's a good idea. You could do a lot of cool things with this.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us] 
>Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 7:27 AM
>To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
>Subject: Re: [ECS] Database Idea
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>So did anyone think that it would be a good idea to see if Mark would put a
>way to talk to an external database through DDE or ODBC into the ECS
>program?  I was thinking that for tables of information, this would allow
us
>to use something like access97 and make a DB and use it's forms to fill in
>the data then access it from ecs.  Or has anyone else done anything like
>this?  I looked at the DDE interface in ECS and it looks like it can only
be
>a server and not the client. ???
>
>Any ideas?

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