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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 189494, member: 4381&quot;]DB&#039;s (such as MS Jets) are not a real databases.&nbsp; The MS SQL database engine is a clone of Sybase,&nbsp; expensive purposefully difficult to use.&nbsp; For more on&nbsp; what makes a database&nbsp; Google RDMS and ACID for further information.&nbsp; That being said, as a general rule novices find databases easier to understand than spreadsheets, especially one like excell.&nbsp; MYSQL is especially convienent to learn learn.&nbsp; If you can read on a 5th grade reading level, you can learn to use it.&nbsp; Nothing however needs to be built if one uses the database driven program that Heritage ( <a href="http://coins.heritageauctions.com/common/MyCollection/MyCollectionList.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.heritageauctions.com/common/MyCollection/MyCollectionList.php" rel="nofollow">http://coins.heritageauctions.com/common/MyCollection/MyCollectionList.php</a> ) provides free.&nbsp; Overwise, I submit those links only for the possible usefulness of anyone who would like to have a RDMS or a spreadsheet application to help keep track of their collection.&nbsp; All those tools are Free Software and free to download as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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