On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 07:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi newbies and not-so-newbies, may your tribe increase, > I don't need to serve the world. I just want an ordinary db to keep track > of my reading habits. I have around 20,000 records saved (not all here, > it includes those just read, borrowed, discarded, and stuff). > In another incarnation I managed to keep track of them in Access .. > which astonished me 18months after I converted to Lotus Approach, as > it is not that friendly ... I digress). > I have an old (pre-99) Lotus Approach (given to me by a friend who > upgraded - I can't afford Smart Suite) on my WinME partition. I can > export (for example as a comma delimited text file) it and import it to > Approach (and to Access if need be). I like Approach - easy to > add/search for items, and report generation (don't need Crystal > Reports) is dead easy too. > What is my best choice in Linux? > I don't need to share across a network. I have used Ingres/SQL (and > Total Database <g>) in the past, but think it is overkill for my modest > requirements. > Yes, I checked out the db apps, but this is only little (although perhaps > a little more than keeping track of one's CD collection) and I'm > overwhelmed by the selection. The info is geared towards websites and > servers ... > Any help? > M8.0, PIII866, 256 RAM, dual boot with WinME (going, going ...), > around 10gigs for Linux. > -- > Cheers, > Helen (who reads this list and saves all great info for later! Thanks,
You might want to check out MySQL, which is supplied with many of the distros, or SQLite which can be found by your favorite search engine. The interesting thing about SQLite is that it doesn't require a database server overhead (almost 5 mB in MySQL). Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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