I'm not sure what forum to post this in, so here I am in General!
As competition chair for my masters team, I have decided to create a team record book. I'm thinking I'll just use a spreadsheet to organize the data, but I'm wondering if there's a better way. I have designed databases before, and I thought about creating one for this, but I'm not sure that using a database program is going to provide any benefit to this? Has anyone else done this before?
Thanks.
This depends on the size of your team, how often it will be updated, and if you wanted to do anything extra (like top 10 for a season). The more complicated, the more I would think you would want a database.
When I first took over the Wave's record keeping, I put the numbers in a database. But I realized that I was spending more time getting the table to look right on the web, than I was in keeping the records up to date. I switched over to simple text files for women, men, and relay records. (I make archive copies before any changes.) Other than the state meet, the updates were quick due to limited number of meet racers.
This depends on the size of your team, how often it will be updated, and if you wanted to do anything extra (like top 10 for a season). The more complicated, the more I would think you would want a database.
When I first took over the Wave's record keeping, I put the numbers in a database. But I realized that I was spending more time getting the table to look right on the web, than I was in keeping the records up to date. I switched over to simple text files for women, men, and relay records. (I make archive copies before any changes.) Other than the state meet, the updates were quick due to limited number of meet racers.
