At 07:42 PM 9/24/00, you wrote:
>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.
I've only used Oracle but most databases have similar components. Setting
up a database is a confusing task until you have done it and worked with
them a few times. I would suggest you just pick one and spend the time to
figure it out. Having set up Oracle, I got it up on Novell the first try,
but didn't know what to do with it after that. If you choose Oracle maybe
my DBA here wouldn't mind giving a few pointers.
Brice
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