Record Keeping Software

[BKF Admin]

Found it.

 

[Nellie]

Whats wrong with writing a database in "MYSQL" ?
ok I admit its the only database language I can write.

Bcrazy has a very nice programe already he uses.

I have a screenshot on my hardrive,let me go find it.

Well it was a toss up between access or sql server express. The advantage of access is that it can be compiled and distributed in a single package without having to try and compile an installer or ensure that someone installs it correctly. That and I can't be bothered to learn mysqls SQL syntax and stored procedures etc.

The screenie is very intersting though, it's prettier than mine but contains a lot of the same info, doing mine "just because" really, as a possibly soon to be unemployed DBA some demonstration of familiarity with access 2007 can't hurt

 

[Poly Hive]

I am chuckling here.

I am going to say all my hive info is on the hive. I don't keep bees in the living room. I keep my bees in Apiaries. That is where I need the info.

I use a card. And an indelible pen.

The date of the queen is at the top plus her colour and if she is clipped.

Q R/c 2007 (2007 Q Red and clipped)

2-3-09 3+1 (date of inspection and brood state)

and so on.

My bricks also tell part of the story.

KISS people. KISS......... too much info is as useless as not enough.

PH

 

[Nellie]

Each to their own I say. I like my graphs, charts and trends, it's what I do for a living and I'm "sad" enough that I enjoy it. I also like the "order from chaos" that a database can bring, again, I do it for a living so keeping myself organised (and it would be chaos otherwise) is a good thing in my book

If a mark one Pencil and Paper works for you, good on ya

 

[GingerNut]

Each to their own I say. I like my graphs, charts and trends, it's what I do for a living and I'm "sad" enough that I enjoy it. I also like the "order from chaos" that a database can bring, again, I do it for a living so keeping myself organised (and it would be chaos otherwise) is a good thing in my book

If a mark one Pencil and Paper works for you, good on ya

I'm also an IT contracter and I like databases as well

Yours Roy

 

[Hivemaker.]

Poly Hive,your real high tech,a card and indelible pen,i use duck tape,idelible pen and a selection of stones.

 

[Poly Hive]

Cor........ never been called High Tech before.

I'm flattered.

PH

 

[BKF Admin]

Who needs to hack a database when you can throw stones..

I also like the idea of a database as I love to pour over stats and graphs.
I can think of nothing better than sending a query to a database on a cold winters evening.
I think its each to their own.

 

[Nellie]

It's like we're INNER JOINed at the hip.

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

 

[jimbeekeeper]

As PH says KISS! You spend more time writing your data base than beekeeping.

Idealy you should have it in your head, or very least a quick few notes.

I am one of the biggest graphers at work, but only beacuse A I get paid to do it and B it is of use.

 

[Nellie]

As PH says KISS! You spend more time writing your data base than beekeeping.

Shortly I might not have any choice in the matter and unfortunately 1 hive of bees is hard to justify as a full time job It's fun, I enjoy it and if at the end of it a few other people find it useful then even better

 

[MrTrueman]

Poly Hive,your real high tech,a card and indelible pen,i use duck tape,idelible pen and a selection of stones.

Pete stones! That made me laugh!

I am lucky my bees are at the back of my office..I simply add notes to my whiteboard.

 

[Poly Hive]

Sorry to but in again but that's the wrong brick!

I prefer grey brick as it takes spray paint well. (could I find a pic for goodness sake!)

I will have shortly when I remember to get the paint, yellow ends which says Queen cells. These are grafted cells I refer to.

Blue paint says virgins in residence.

Red says grafts in hive.

PH

 

[Hivemaker.]

Were you by any chance a part time grafitti artist in another life poly.

 

[Poly Hive]

No.

Painted oil rigs mind you.

PH

 

[Hivemaker.]

Did you paint any blue?

 

[Poly Hive]

Not an oil rig per se but a flotel yes. Their colour was blue, Safe Felecia by name.

PH

 

[Heather]

Virgins on an oil rig?? No, that blue paint was safely stashed at home

 

[match]

Idealy you should have it in your head, over very least a quick few notes.

Its really difficult to write notes as you go round an apiary, and difficult to remember the details for each one if you're inspecting 4 or more hives.

I recently started using a dictaphone (voice activated) at the apiary - once which has a wee digital camera built into it. I just turn it on before going to the hives, and try and talk my way through the hives as I'm working on them. I can then sort out my notes in my own time, and make sure I get everything down.

 

[Nellie]

That was my next idea. Most mobile phones have a recording facility nowadays and that linked to a headset wired or otherwise seemed another alternative.