RE: DB app recommendations

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

Ha-ha. But seriously, are there DB apps that you recommend for working with
blocks of text? Access, with its 256-character cell limit, wouldn't seem to
cut it. And the quantity of data involved seems a little small to justify a
gorilla like Oracle.

Thanks,

Dan Goldstein

-----Original Message-----
From: Goober Writer 
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:02 AM
To: Goldstein, Dan; TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: DB app recommendations

> My company wants to take a large amount of
> proposal-related text (~10K
> pages), break it up into blocks of between 1
> paragraph and 15 pages, and
> store the whole thing in a heavily cross-referenced
> database, so text can be
> pulled for use in future proposals.
> 
> Much of the text will have to be scanned and OCR'd
> into the database, so
> current doc formats are not much of an issue. What
> we have electronically is
> principally in Word.
> 
> Any recommendations?

Advil and Maalox.

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