"Jim Macklin" wrote in message news:qS_xf.43022$QW2.8123@dukeread08...
Many years ago I used WORKS database [DOS 2.0 version] to
create a logbook, that automatically updated totals and also
gave the date for 90 day and night currency landings. I
don't use it, seemed to be a lot of trouble to use, but that
was before the days of the PDA.

I've gone through various stages with mine... Initially, I started it out as
a MS Excel spreadsheet... That worked fine until I got to the point where I
wanted to put more characters in the text description field than was allowed
(255, IIRC)... I then switched to a MS Access database... I was using MS SQL
Server for some stuff at work at that time and I didn't like the fact that
between one version of SQL Server and another, some of my SQL code wasn't
working the same, so I got ****ed off at MS and decided to change my logbook
app to just a proprietary file format so that I wouldn't have to worry about
that eventually happening to it...