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Short opinions welcome.
Task: Organize about ninety business cards
Question for opinions: Set up a spreadsheet ? Set up a Database ?
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Can't make a suggestion without more information: In what period of time did you accumulate the 90 cards?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: In what period of time did you accumulate the 90 cards?
That is a truly insightful question.
If it took him 10 years to get all those, throw them in a spreadsheet.
If he's going to get 90 more tomorrow? DATABASE!!!!
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Three day period, generally 3 minute conversations with 90 different companies.
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Spreadsheet.
90 business cards is not a large number.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I would go with a spreadsheet.
You have not told us how much information is associated with each business card - however if it's just a name, address, phone number and email then I would go for a spreadsheet.
90 lines of information is not too many distinct values to work with in dropdown filters and sorting which is why I would use a spreadsheet.
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Why do some people use Excel as a Database, a company I worked for used to keep there complete stock of components on an Excel sheet.
Also they used to keep the records of repairs in a sheet, when I took over I changed to using an Access data base but was critised for using a non-searchable system(?)
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A spreadsheet is easy to open and work with. But a database could hold more and is much more extensible. But on the other hand you might need an app written to work with the data. having said that you could easily write an app that gives you your business card data from anywhere.
The true answer to your question depends on what you plan to do with the data in the future.
Oh, BTW - this question really belongs in Design and Architecture forum.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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A database that can import/export spreadsheets.
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Let me kick in that open door; one does not use a spreadsheet for database-purposes.
No, I am not going to discuss that.
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Have a gazillion rep-points (or part thereof). The misuse of spreadsheets for data storage/management purpose drives me to homicidal rage - particularly when I get called in to sort out the mess of layers of linked spreadsheets into something useable.
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Quote: particularly when I get called in to sort out the mess of layers of linked spreadsheets into something useable
Oh you would have so loved one of the business critical systems I had to help look after 
Well over a hundred (I kid you not) linked spreadsheets spread over 3 servers and more VBA code sheets than I've had hot dinners. 
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Rolodex. Or tape them into a notebook or something.
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Agreed; for 90 cards you don't need an app. By the time you did the data entry, you'd have a lot of the information in your head.
Of course, if he's accumulating 90 cards every week/month/trade show, an app might be a good idea.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: an app might be a good idea
Yes, one that accepts scans. I think those are still available.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: if he's accumulating 90 cards every week/month/trade show,
Can't predict it accurately, but a good guess is 4 or 5 more shows this year.
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Down with app. Up with flap.
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Whatever your more comfortable with , unless you're looking to learn a new language or use a new app.
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Door number 3. Don't reinvent the wheel. Booyah[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh boy, software that can read printed text off of a card.
I have bridges for sale in New York and San Francisco.
Hope I'm not being caustic, but I have never seen any package that actually works.
The procedure I've found that does work is...
- Put a bunch of them on the scanner glass
- Open the image
- Type them one at a time, by hand
Tedious, yes, and it costs a lot of time.
However...
With business cards, collected after a face to face conversation with a brand new stranger at a trade show, the word "accuracy", even with the attendant probability of human input error, takes care of the word, "efficiency".
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I'd go for the Database, in the end it's more scalable and easier to put in new or delete old.
just my 2 cents
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Spreadsheet. MS-Excel has some nice database features, which can be accessed vic C# or VB.net 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Must have a database, you need to buy SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
(If this is all you are doing go with the spreadsheet.)
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For 90 cards, the storage medium matters not. The bigger question would be how are you going to enter them into your system, whichever you choose? Business card readers are plentiful these days.
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Razor code gets formatted oddly when you choose code formatting.
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The highlight and the first right bracket aren't really there.
I also noticed that I can use the emojis from the lounge in my articles
I know about Bugs & Sugs and I've reported this in the article location. Just chatting about it here.
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