Paul G. Allen said:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Are there any suitable alternative database languages for Linux?
>>
>> I have made programs in a database language. However, foxbase does
>> not run on
>> Linux. I would like to create a program which seems like it would
>> best be
>> written in a database language.
>>
>> I am aware that Perl has such capabilities although I do not know
>> how they are
>> implemented. And to do it in Perl, I would need to learn a lot more
>> than I know
>> presently.
>>
>
> I use MySQL and Database Designer 4 (DBD4). DBD4 is excellent and
> allows you to create a DB with a GUI. It will also import the DB into
> the GUI from the DB. For example, if you have a DB already and you
> want to modify it, see how it's laid out, etc, you can import it into
> DBD4. You can also write queries with it, and it supports plugins. One
> useful plugin is the PHP web plugin that will create a web front-end
> in PHP for your database.
After a fitful start, I finally got it working and spent the day
designing a database for a project I'm working on. It's pretty cool,
but it is a cpu hog. Once my database design started getting large, it
got really slow and my cpu usage went to 99%.
I still like it for a design tool.
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