artful at rogers.com
artful at rogers.com
Sun Jan 14 09:23:31 CST 2007
If all you want is a document store, Gustav, it's called SQL Server 2005. Apparently the term BLOB has gone out of fashion (go figure), now this column type is called LOB. (Massive improvement from the Creative Naming Department over there in Redmond.) Turns out I already had Binder installed, so I just dragged it onto my Office Shortcut bar (another feature that I love that has mysteriously gone missing -- currently I have 11 Office shortcut bars, each dedicated to a different set of tasks or group of apps -- this makes much more sense to me than using the Start Menu). Anyway, I'm building my first Binder as I write this. We shall see. One of the things I'm hoping it will successfully deal with is different style sheets for different components. I have one style for mostly-text chapters and another style for SQL Tips, and so on. What I'm hoping Binder will do is let me drop all the various documents into my new book (soon to be available from a sensible bookstore near you, I hope). Arthur ----- Original Message ---- From: Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:26:43 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS Binder Hi Arthur People and small companies are generally not very "advanced" computer users - and for those few that are, their clients or customers or suppliers they communicate with are not. That's why I don't see a glorious future for things like SharePoint server. Most users just don't get it, and people like us - who are supposed to be able to find out the inner ideas and secrets of such products and spread the word - are busy with other tasks. /gustav PS: Having Word to keep hold on 200 documents - in some confident way - would kill my sleep. Wouldn't there be another way to do this - like a true document store or database? >>> artful at rogers.com 14-01-2007 02:56:55 >>> So I have the O2k virgin installed already. I don't want to trap myself though. I suppose that I can experiment, reading a couple of dozen files into a Binder wrapper, and see what happens. I wonder why they dropped it. I would have thought such a technology to have legs. Example: combine several Word documents, several Excel worksheets and several Access reports into one file, with intelligent pagination. Am I the only guy in the world who needs to do this? Perhaps. A. ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:20:36 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS Binder Binder was discontinued after w2k. I think retrosupport can be added via Add/Remove Programs/Microsoft Office. PB artful at rogers.com wrote: > Has Binder been dropped from the Office suite? I have several versions of Office installed, and it seems that the only place Binder lives is in Office 2000. Is that correct, or did it simply fail to install on subsequent versions? > > TIA, > Arthur > > P.S. > I ask because I have a need to collect about 200 documents into one master document. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com