Attached is a do it yourself explanation about how I go about building a database step-by-step. I don't know how to do much more than copy and paste, so it is a pretty simple process, albeit time consuming. I spent about six hours putting this one year together. Would have been closer to four, but I was stupid and discovered I had wrong data 3/4 of the way through, and had to go back to scratch.
Smarter people could do it faster and no doubt better. I am a self taught plodder.
I hope will be useful both for those who are both going to attend and for those who are unable to attend the how to build and how to use a database workshop on this coming Friday. The workshop is part of the SBR bash 2010 style. Learn while you party!
It includes all regular season games of all teams from last year, 512 lines. Each game is in twice, as you may want to add fields from the data link provided. All data is from the Covers.com team records section.
IF it attaches OK, I'll do a bit of explanation in a minute. There are different worksheets showing steps towards how I went about building it as well. We only have two hours on Friday, this should give us a leg up on discussing how to use a database for fun and (hopefully) profit.
Smarter people could do it faster and no doubt better. I am a self taught plodder.

I hope will be useful both for those who are both going to attend and for those who are unable to attend the how to build and how to use a database workshop on this coming Friday. The workshop is part of the SBR bash 2010 style. Learn while you party!
It includes all regular season games of all teams from last year, 512 lines. Each game is in twice, as you may want to add fields from the data link provided. All data is from the Covers.com team records section.
IF it attaches OK, I'll do a bit of explanation in a minute. There are different worksheets showing steps towards how I went about building it as well. We only have two hours on Friday, this should give us a leg up on discussing how to use a database for fun and (hopefully) profit.