Database Question...

Subject: Database Question...
From: Scotty
Date: 02 Apr 99 - 04:10 PM

When someone has a lyric request posted on the Forum page, and that request is answered, do the new lyrics end up in the main Database?...or is the Forum search its own kinda' database that should be searched also?...Mudcatters rule!!...See Ya'...Scotty

Subject: RE: Database Question...
From: Gene
Date: 02 Apr 99 - 04:34 PM

PAGING Dick Greenhaus...Are you listening?

Subject: RE: Database Question...
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 02 Apr 99 - 05:48 PM

Scotty,

I will try to answer your question as best I can to save Dick G. (the Database master) some time. Twice a year, roughly Spring and Fall, the Digital Tradition Database is upgraded with new material. The majority of this material comes from postings on the threads as you have surmised. However, there is some editorial decision making about which songs get posted. For instance, a recent Def Leppard song was posted in another thread and I am confident it will not go into the Database.

Since this process is not instantaneous, we at the Mudcat Cafe Discussion Forum suggest you search both the DT and the threads. For some reason, it seems frequent that a lyric request coming in has been addressed in a recent thread. In his second April Fool's joke Max said he was going to automate this process so if you titled a thread "Snowjob" any DT postings and any forum threads that addressed it would be given to you. What a laugh! That Max! He sure is a kidder :). Can you imagine that? LOL ROFLAMO!!!!

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Database Question...
From: Max
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 12:01 PM

That, Roger, is no joke. In a few short weeks, the forum will be cross indexed with the Digitrad as well as itself. A quick search will be done each time a new thread is started to look in the digitrad and the forum to see if that concept is already in either. The user will be shown any results as well as the oportunity to continue the new thread process. We are over 60,000 messages and are adding hundreds a day. Our little minds are scrambling to not let the volume defeat the usefullness and ease of use of this forum. The Digitrad and Forum are so incestuous now that we are working to combine them without destroying their individuality. There will be many new features and experiments throughout the spring and summer that will be sure to amaze.

Subject: RE: Database Question...
From: Martin _Ryan
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 05:17 PM

Max

You NEVER cease to amaze!

Regards

Subject: RE: Database Question...
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 07:17 PM

Any chance of a Windows 95 edition of the PC version of the database, Max? The DOS version works fine, but a Win 95 version might be prettier, and easier to use.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Database Question...
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 08:26 PM

Joe- askSam, the folks that created the DOS search engine do have a Windows version, but it's not nearly as powerful and flexible as their DOS version. If and when an improved Windows version appears that will do what the DOS version does (Boolean searches, automatic tune playing etc.)we'll produce a Windows version.