[WEB4LIB] SQL/ASP/VBScript for librarians

[Don Hamilton]

I'm really sorry, but I can't resist...


You'd better not switch from Access to SQL if what you *really* want to do
is 'suture developments'... cutting and pasting will be easier with the
original database server...

don (that was only two thirds of a pun.. pu, it really stank) hamilton

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Ian Winship
Sent: March 28, 2001 9:02 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] SQL/ASP/VBScript for librarians


Colleagues

We currently maintain Access databases of our electronic journals and
bibliographic databases as a management tool and to generate dynamic Web
pages using asp scripts. The scripts were written by a colleague who has now
left so we need to understand more what he did for suture developments. Also
following advice from our IT folk we going to be moving the databases to
SQL.

Thus I am looking for some training material for fairly non-techy people and
that ideally is intended for librarians in terms of the selection of the
content. The general SQL, ASP and VBScript tutorials that I have seen are
much too overwhelming in their detail.

Any ideas? (And for those list members in the UK - yes, I have looked at the
Netskills stuff)

Many thanks.

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Learning Resources, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
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