From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 11:53:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A5416A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD69043F75 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:53:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.22.189]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031022185353.SAQT602.out002.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:53:53 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55044AB48; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CD7CAA26; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000e01c398cd$d608e290$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: "freebsd-questions" References: <3F96D018.6050806@netscape.net> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:53:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [4.46.22.189] at Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:53:52 -0500 cc: "E. J. Cerejo" Subject: Re: Databases X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:53:55 -0000 > I have a small business and I'm looking to setup a freebsd server. I > want to connect about 4 clients to this server running windows XP. The > Freebsd server will keep a database of every customer address, phone > number, what services that were performed, how much was charged, etc > etc. This is basically all I need for now and I was wondering which > opensource database would do this in the easiest possible way. Also > what software would I use in the client boxes to access this database > (input and output). My suggestion would be either MySQL or PostgreSQL as both have a ODBC clients for Windows. http://www.mysql.com http://www.postgresql.org