I agree on PostgreSQL I want to get the Witango Archive off M$Access ASAP ;-)
Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alex Kac Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question That would be such a big plus for me. A lot of things I do require very large text fields... I think from everything I've read here, Postgres and Primebase are my two candidates. -- Alex Kac, CEO/Developer Innovation in Personal and Business Information Management http://www.pocketinformant.com/ zoomzoom > From: Robert Sfeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:26:05 -0400 > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question > > Yup > > It supports everything you'd need. > > Besides the fact that it also has sequences, I love the fact that its > varchar2 implementation has no size limit. So you can have a > varchar2(32000) and it works just fine. No need for CLOB > > R > > On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Ben Johansen wrote: > >> Hi, >> Does PostgreSQL support Stored Procedures? >> >> Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com >> Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm >> Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jesse Parker >> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 5:39 AM >> To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk >> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question >> >> I'm very happy with PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org) >> >> I believe MySQL has better and more elaborate administration GUIs than >> Postgres. >> >> I only have experience with Postgres from the command prompt, where it >> behaves a lot like a well thought out version of Oracle. Backups and >> restores are very easy. Good SQL client. Support for everything. >> Commercial support available. >> >> >> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Alex Kac wrote: >> >>> Here�s a more on-topic question for here.... >>> >>> We�re a Win2k shop looking to move to OS X Server 10.2 on XServe. >> Currently >>> we�re running SQL Server 2k � but frankly, part of my goal is to get >> rid of >>> all MS software for our servers. There are quite a few reasons for >> this, but >>> I won�t elaborate. >>> >>> Now, my budget is already going to go down the tubes with the >> XServes...and >>> possibly WiTango (price still matters, and I�ll say that a large part >> of my >>> reluctance to embrace paying $$$ for WiTango 5 is the price and my >> viewpoint >>> that yes, its just an SP2 derivative). But you don�t want to skimp on >> the >>> database. So...I may just keep one of our servers for SQL Server � but >> what >>> low cost or freeware databases do you suggest? MySQL is what many >> people >>> seem to use, but from my reading � not experience mind you � its not a >>> �real� database. Yet large sites like SlashDot and others run off it >> just >>> fine. >>> >>> I�m not looking for a database war here, I�m not looking for support >> options >>> � I�m just asking from what you currently run or have run in the past >> � what >>> do you recommend? >>> >>> -- >>> Alex Kac, CEO/Developer >>> >>> Innovation in Personal and Business Information Management >>> http://www.pocketinformant.com/ >>> >>> zoomzoom >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> _ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> _ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
