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From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Database application ideas sought
Message-ID: <298@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 00:40:43 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.298
Posted: Thu Jan  8 00:40:43 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Jan-87 23:08:19 EST
References: <4431@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: glee@northstar.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
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Summary: 

In article <4431@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> gary@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) writes:
>What would/do you all use databases for?  For what would you use a database that
>allows pictures to be stored in it as well as text and numbers?

There are a lot of commercial use for it, such as storing catalog of inventory,
showing houses along with the description of the house for realty companies.

The combination of a home computer with colour graphics, a cheap digitizer, and
a database like the above make all that possible.

Somethings off the top of my head for personal use:

. online cookbook with the picture of the result of each recipe, or illustration
of the steps.

. phonebook with image of person

. catalog of my jewelry with picture of the jewelry, great for insurance
companies.

. database of icons

Come to think of it, you probably want a database where each column in a table
(item in a record) can be an iff object, so you can store not only pictures, but
also documents (encoded with layout information), sound piece, or even a
program. Actually, you could generalize it so each column can be a file
(actually pointer to a file).
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