Hi all,
I'm been thinking recently about the best way to incorporate testing
(regression/unit/etc) into routine data analysis scripts, both for my
own work and when teaching (e.g. a graduate-level bioinformatics class).
Conceptually it seems straightforward to incorporate tests when
Hi,
the set up is probably going to be harder, but apart from that, I think postgres
is preferable.
It is a much higher quality database — things actually work as specified by SQL.
When talking about sqlite I always find it a bit disconcerting that it just
pretends to implement various features
Hi Alexander,
I've taught with Postgres twice - both times, I did the first
three-quarters of the workshop with SQLite to get people familiar with
the basic ideas and syntax, then switched to a hosted PG server with
their department's actual data in it [1] for the last bit. It went
Hello all,
We have received an expression of interest in a workshop from one of our
departments,
which would include the lesson on databases and SQL. They suggest to use
PostgreSQL
since that would also be interesting for geographers because of PostGIS (a
spatial
database extender for
