8th August 2006, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by DR RON
Funny you should mention databases wes as I was only thinking of starting my own not long ago. A couple of questions for you or any others who can help, should I use excell or access to store the info in, and which form provider is the easiest to use, as well as having plenty of info , such as position in running, especially for non-metro races as these are where most of my betting is at the moment. I dont mind paying for form as I would like to get all a horses starts, but not a huge amount though, under $ 50 a month would be my budget. I dont want to use it as a system creator, more as an in depth analysis tool, for example i would like to be able to pull up every horse run from any individual barrier and see if there is any common factors from the horses that won or finished close up from that particular barrier, also things like being able to pull up a list of all horses in the db that are trained by a certain trainer and see if I can pick up his/her methods ecetera. Thanks in advance from the doc.
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Dr Ron,
Don't use Excel, as the data grows you risk corruption, Access will be far more reliable and you can perform queries much better. Also the data can be split into tables which means you can import form to one table and results to another.
The best form provider is the "virtual" one.
I dont want to use it as a system creator, more as an in depth analysis tool, for example i would like to be able to pull up every horse run from any individual barrier and see if there is any common factors from the horses that won or finished close up from that particular barrier, also things like being able to pull up a list of all horses in the db that are trained by a certain trainer and see if I can pick up his/her methods ecetera.
My database can do this. Also you can export the data to almost any format you want. Might be a starting point as all the data is already in there.
Just a suggestion, as in the longrun it will save you a great deal of expense in past form and results. |