On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 11:33, Paul Smith wrote: > 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? If you like base otherwise, you can use postgresql as the backend though odbc or this: http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/postgresql/ Depending on what you are doing, it may be a good idea to design it so that you can access the tables through an assortment of tools. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
