Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
Could someone please recommend a nice and well documented database
program for a person who has never used a database?
I was browsing IBM's selection last evening.
DB2 is the RDBMS if you're serious about performance. Free to developers.
There's Informix, probably free to developers, I didn't check.
Cloudscape, avaiilable as Derby from the Apache project. Cloudscape is
for imbedding in applications, and may work well with OOo.
There's Interbase (maybe renamed) from Borland, got open-sourced a few
years ago, and Ingres from CA.
And of course, mySQL (more of a file manager, really) and Postgresql
that both ship with most popular Linux distros.
Oh, and there's my old favourite from the early 80s, Adabas (originally
from .de) that I think now ships from mysql.com under the moniker MaxDB.
Adabas-D was shipped by Star Division as part of (some) StarOffice
commercial offerings. It may well still work with OOo better than any other.
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Cheers
John
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