On 1/29/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Could someone please recommend a nice and well documented database > > program for a person who has never used a database? > > That's not much to go on when asking for a recommendation. > The obvious choices on fedora will be MySQL and postgresql > and between those, postgresql follows the sql standards > more closely and has a less restrictive license. Mysql > might be slightly faster if your usage is mostly read-only. > > You'll also need client side tools. Perl/php/java are > often used for web access and there are some generic > frameworks available. Openoffice/base could be used > for something more interactive. Thanks to all. I have tried OpenOffice Base, but it is slow. Postgresql seems to be nice. Is there some gui for it, i.e., for postgresql? Paul
