Re: Choosing a database package

[<sjb@dundee.lia.net>]

I believe mySQL and PostgreSQL would both fit your needs. I'm not sure
which languages you are familiar with but Perl probably has the best
balance of ease and functionality. There are interfaces to get Perl
working with postgresql/mysql and also interfaces to get perl working with
GTK.

Hope this helps.

Regards

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Sarel Botha

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 chull@whitestar.soark.net wrote:

> I hope this is the correct place for this question. If not plase be gentle
> as you point me in the right direction. I am looking for a database package
> for our home network. The initial uses will be simple, such as a phone list,
> and ease of use will be the major concern. Later on we intend to do some
> more complex databases and versatility and the tools to access it from a
> variety of front ends, including web pages and programs we write will be critical.
> I would prefer SQL if that doesn't involve too much of a performance hit.
> But we will initially be running both server and clients on 486 machines
> and SQL is not a requirement.
> 
> At this point PostgreSQL looks like the best bet. But that is based on the
> barest of information. I would appreciate hearing people experiances and
> recomendations. I have a lot of experiance with designing and writing hard
> coded databases and som experiance with SQL. But I am on disability with
> some fairly severe cognative impairments. My son is learning to be a decent
> programmer but has no experiance with databases. Other users will include
> people who are not computer people. So ease of instalation and use of
> available front ends is important.
> 
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