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> I have always known that a relational database would be be ideal, but have
> considered it a fairly daunting development task with limited payback.
> With several relational DBs I have so far found for the Palm, all that
> changes.   The design job is relatively trivial.  Some of these DBs even
> will work with Access and also allow several users simultaneous read/write
> use of data before merging and can have bar code capability.  I can import
> old data from other software, albeit with a little massaging, and append it
> where I wish.  I have done so and been pleased.
>
If you were to design a relational database what would you key on? Would you
assign hive bodies numbers? Things are so interchangable I would wonder what
the core of the record keeping would revolve around.
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