Quoting Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, February 9, 2006 12:58 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:06, Steve Holdoway wrote: > >> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:51:29 +1300 > >> > >> Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I'm currently downloading Ingres, the formerly CA-ed dbms. > >> > http://www.ingres.com/ is where it's at, more specifically at > >> > http://www.ingres.com/products/Prod_Download_Portal.html : > >> > > >> > "Ingres 2006 is available under a dual licensing model. > > > > [ ... ] > > > >> I look forward to it. Ingres was the first rdbms I used back in the > >> 80's, and I have been meaning to see how well a really mature > product > >> like this stacks up against the young pretenders, especially MySQL > and > >> Postgres. > > What would be especially interesting would be to hear how Ingres has > > matured, and a comparison between it as it is now and its direct child > - > > PostgreSQL. Would you feel able to give a talk on the subject later in > the > > year? > > > > Interesting links:- > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgres > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres > > > > -- > > CS > > > I would think that it might have a bit of a limited interest... these > days > the most important thing to most peeople is the availability of an API > to > $MyFaveLanguage ( and hopefully later the power/readability of the > language used to write stored procedures ). > > Maybe an intro to database design incorporating both? Or should that be > done in MySQL?
An intro to database design! Now that would be a delight to do! I've come across enough hairy designs to want to shave the people who did those databases completely bald! it's surprising how people who'd never confuse the job one is doing with the person doing the job - at least as far as threatening said person that they can find another x people to do the same job if they're not careful - so eaily combine the two when it comes to designing databases. Then they wonder what the problem is! Wesley Parish > > Comments gratefully received and I'll see that I can do in my spare(!) > time. > > Steve > > -- > Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who are now stuck in > traffic on their way to a health club to ride a stationary bicycle. - > Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon) > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
