From owner-freebsd-database Tue Mar 19 14: 4:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from frl.nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5C337B404 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:04:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from nisser.com (roelof.nisser.com [10.0.0.2]) by frl.nisser.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17DCEA11; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:04:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3C97B5D2.3040203@nisser.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:04:02 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stacy Millions Cc: mike ndabarasa , freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a more philosophical question !!! References: <3C974ACA.EFDAF158@millions.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stacy Millions wrote: > mike ndabarasa wrote: > > >>here is my question: >>how does one get something usefull from such a box ? do we >>need a shell login to work with it(at www.mysql.com i saw >>they suppose you are working from a shell login)? or can we >>querry it with a particular program(let say access!) from a >>Win*&^s box in a networked environment? > > I guess it is time I stop using RTFM and change to RTFHP (what do > you think sounds better HP for Home Page or WP for Web Page? :-) That would make the original name for PHP, PWP. I don't know. Has a somewhat different ring to it ;). > Any way, if you go to TFHP at > http://www.mysql.com/downloads/contrib.html you will find a list > of client software as well as APIs (so you can write applications > that access the database). Some are windows based. I would suggest adding ODBC, if it's not already included. Can't remember . It's your best chance, if at least you consider M$ Access a necessity to usefulness. Personally it made me look up oxymoron in dict(1), but that's me ;). There's also phpMyAdmin which clients of mine made me install. Might want to look into it, it's a port. Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message