A guiding principle of good database design is that each piece of information should exist in only one place-duplicating data can lead to trouble. How often have you arduously searched through a ...

One of FileMaker Pro’s strengths is that it allows for organic design: It’s easy to modify FileMaker Pro databases, and they tend to grow and change over time as their users’ needs change. On the flip ...

The decades-old database software now wants to be where you go to create data-centric Mac, PC, cloud and iOS apps, and generally accomplishes what it set out to do. FileMaker Pro 17 has been released, ...

A wonderfully easy-to-use desktop database product that runs on Windows and the Mac, FileMaker Pro is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as departments of large and enterprise-sized ...

In a number of previous blog posts (see Handy hint: Dictation and feedback; and Surviving the semester: Tracking Students) I've talked about the use of Bento, which is a very easy-to-use database type ...

I never thought I'd find something to make me pine for the ease-of-use of an Microsoft Office product, but FileMaker Pro has done it. A few questions on it:<BR><BR>-- How does one simply make an ...

Yesterday afternoon I was dragged screaming into the 21st Century. Eight years ago I started enhancing a FileMaker-supplied sample app for my friend, a revered guitar teacher who sells about two dozen ...