Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-12 Thread Nick Pavlica
I have used both of these databases on critical production servers with great results. I would suggest that you play around with both of them. --Nick On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:59:10 -0500, Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On February 11, 2005 05:17 pm, Sean wrote: Jan Branbergen wrote:

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Sean
Jan Branbergen wrote: I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life currently, round now for learning. Right now plan to install MySQL. Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for server, some say for client. Looking for some tips as to what

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:17 -0500, Sean wrote: What is the difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL? From what I see MySQL seems to be more common. They are completely separate projects. Postgresql grew out of an academic project (ingres), mysql was developed by a commercial organisation

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Oliver Leitner
after a lil bit of research on google, ive stumbled across this one, which just rounds up what anyone would tell about it. wrote:http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=161 there are prolly other articles that say more, but this one just seems to fit your needs, short and to the

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Sean wrote: What is the difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL? From what I see MySQL seems to be more common. Sean There are a lot of threads on a forum I frequent (www.phpbuilder.com/board) that address this issue. Here are a few links.

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:17 pm, Sean wrote: What is the difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL? From what I see MySQL seems to be more common. Sean What.not enough holy wars this week? ;-) PostgreSQL and MySQL are both good database server applications. Here are some

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 11, 2005 05:17 pm, Sean wrote: Jan Branbergen wrote: I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life currently, round now for learning. Right now plan to install MySQL. Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for server, some

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Then again, you could just ride the fence and install them both . . . I'd also suggest you start with MySQL though. As mentioned previously, it's the more commonly used DB. I started with PostgreSQL, and wound up having to install MySQL anyway because I wanted to try some apps that requred it.