What do you use for the front end of your apps ??

Also , you mentioned the tcl ? Can you give more ionfo ?
Can it be used to create a dtata base application ??
What programing languege does it use ?

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>
>I would suggest PostgreSQL because of what mysql lacks.  MySQL is only
>about 10% faster than PostgreSQL but the latter is more compliant to
>ANSI SQL92 standards.  PostgreSQL offers classes, inheritance, types,
>functions, contraints, triggers, rules and transaction integrity.  The
>last feature is one that MySQL will never have.  PostgreSQL comes with
>pgaccess, a tcl application also available for windows that looks and
>runs similar to MSAccess, but not as extensive is MSAccess.  PostgreSQL
>is free (you can purchase support), MySQL costs if you are selling it or
>selling a product which includes it (or you run it on Win95 or NT),
>although the client code is GPL.  MySQL won't do sub-selects, selects
>into tables, transactions, triggers, foreign keys (but you get a
>philosophical reason why you should not use foreign keys) and views. 
>"GROUP BY" on text fields only work if they are fixed length.  ALTER
>TABLE is used for creating and dropping indicies.  GRANT is sldo
>non-functional, MySQL has it's own non-standard security features.  I
>used MySQL and liked it.  I found PostgreSQL more similar to the
>commerical SQL engines I have used and found MySQL more limiting.  I
>switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL and am glad I did.  I am looking
>forward to version 6.5: http://postgresql.nextpath.com/ which will
>feature multi-version concurency control, a locking scheme which allows
>reading of locked rows without access errors.
>
>-- 
>
>JLK
>Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
>right.
>
>
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