dangerous waters... people argue over RDMBS's the way people argue over
vi vs. emacs...
For modest requirements, I'd like to suggest MySQL and PHPMyAdmin which
is a set of PHP scripts which allow you to manage your database(s) via
your browser...
:-)
J.
btw, fwiw, freshmeat, /. , sourceforge and thinkgeek all use MySQL
questionexchange.com uses oracle 8i on Linux.
good luck!
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000,
Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
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>
>
> For a variety of reasons I want a relational database for Linux. As far as I
> know my choices are
> MySQL (which has huge and confusing doc)
> Oracle 8i (which has a huge and confusing download)
> DB2 (which has an advertized download that I can't find)
> Postgress (which appears to have no doc whatsoever).
>
> What are you folks using, if anything ? What's good what's bad ?
> My needs are so modest that I might just do what I need in C and be done with
> it, but I'd like to have a real database engine just because.
>
> Besides, this seems like a nice discussion topic for this group.
>
>
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> Standard is better than better. If your web page cares what browser I'm using
> it's broken.
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