From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 15:51:29 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 4ED2216A50B for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 774FB4402F for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 1762 invoked by uid 65534); 18 Sep 2003 22:50:46 -0000 Received: from p5083CAE4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO earth) (80.131.202.228) by mail.gmx.net (mp016) with SMTP; 19 Sep 2003 00:50:46 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1954550 From: "Ph. Schulz" To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <200309181613.36131.algould@datawok.com> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Witch database do you recommend? 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: , Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:51:30 -0000 X-Original-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:32:03 +0200 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:51:30 -0000 Are you aware that this question is almost like 'What's better, Linux or FreeBSD?' ;-) To give some hints in reply to your question: If you want to learn SQL, then you should probably use PostgreSQL as it's SQL functionality fully implements the ANSI SQL-92 standard. If you just want to set up a little home database to play around with you should probably use mySQL as you will find more information on google/the internet. Long story short: There are long essays on this question (you can find those on google) and there is no general answer to your question. Phil | -----Original Message----- | From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Andrew L. Gould | Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:14 PM | To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa; Jeff MacDonald | Cc: 'BSD.' | Subject: Re: Witch database do you recommend? | | | On Thursday 18 September 2003 04:06 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: | > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jeff MacDonald wrote: | > > Hi, | > > | > > You've opened quite a can of worms ;) | > > | > > I would recommend PostgreSQL, I've always found it's documentation | > > to be great, the mailing lists great, and just getting it working | > > easier. | > | > Indeed that's exactly the same thing you could say about mysql . | > Especially you can use all LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) | > documentation you'll find in google, which makes it a very | > interesting learning enviroment. | | It has begun...... | | Oh, what the heck --> I like FAPP (FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, Python). | | Now let's see if a Zope user can come up with a pronouncable acronym! | | ;-) | | > | > Regards, | > | > Uli. | | | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to | "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" | |