Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Judith Lacoste
Hi, I am very grateful for all your prompt replies, that’s fantastic since I got an answer to my question. I am going to digest all of it, and then decide what to do next. Once again, thanks a lot! Best regards, Judith > On 2019-Sep-05, at 19:08, Sam Gendler wrote: > > If I was in a

Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Sam Gendler
If I was in a hurry to implement this, and I had a userbase that wasn't very experienced with managing relational databases, I'd write some code to automatically and periodically build a docker image with the latest data in it (however often is sufficient to meet your needs), and then I'd set up a

Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 9/5/19 2:00 PM, Judith Lacoste wrote: Hi, I think PostgreSQL is the solution for my needs, but I am not a programmer/coder.  If I can confirm PostgreSQL does what I need, I will have to hire someone to assist, I am willing to give the effort to learn myself but it may be difficult, my

Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Ron
On 9/5/19 4:00 PM, Judith Lacoste wrote: Hi, I think PostgreSQL is the solution for my needs, but I am not a programmer/coder.  If I can confirm PostgreSQL does what I need, I will have to hire someone to assist, I am willing to give the effort to learn myself but it may be difficult, my

Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Hi Judith, Might be more than you are looking for, but . . . We’ve done something like this with a portable mapping system installed on a Raspberry Pi. Really!!, it works with Postgres and a webserver to serve out a replicated open software stack based mappint interface. Our focus was on

Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:00 PM Judith Lacoste wrote: > I think PostgreSQL is the solution for my needs, but I am not a > programmer/coder. I don't think that it's restricted to people that are computer scientists. At least, I certainly hope it isn't. SQL was originally supposed to be something

Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Ben Chobot
On Sep 5, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Judith Lacoste wrote: > > Hi, > > I plan to install the database on a server in the office. Me and my four > colleagues will occasionally connect to this database when we are working in > other locations (usually hospitals or universities). In such remote >

Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Judith Lacoste
Hi, I think PostgreSQL is the solution for my needs, but I am not a programmer/coder.  If I can confirm PostgreSQL does what I need, I will have to hire someone to assist, I am willing to give the effort to learn myself but it may be difficult, my specialities are biology and microscopy.  Or