From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 14:19:17 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 0C17016A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4182D43FAF for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fran@natserv.net) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9VMJFl4008379; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:19:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:19:12 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco J Reyes To: "E. J. Cerejo" In-Reply-To: <3F96D872.4090206@netscape.net> Message-ID: <20031031171339.C45588@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <3F96D018.6050806@netscape.net> <000e01c398cd$d608e290$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <3F96D872.4090206@netscape.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: mike@pcmedx.com cc: freebsd-questions 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: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:19:17 -0000 On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > I just went through the download page of postgresql but I couldn't see > the client for windows, could you send me the link for the client or is > it accessible with IE? For starters most databases don't have "clients" in the sense of a program to connect to use and use/changed/play with the data. Most SQL databases such as PostgreSQL "Serve requests" to "clients". Clients usually come as custom programs done for a particular purpose or administrative types of programs that among other things allow you to interact with the database and it's data. What I believe others where trying to point you to are the ODBC drivers. Basically a series of programs that let yet other programs talk to the database. I would recommend you look into PHP as to not have to worry about the clients. Are you planning on doing this syste/database yourself? Are you familiar with doing programs? There are different ways you could go about this, just let us know your background so we can further comment. For instance if only one user was to update the data and it would be read only for the rest you could get an administration program for PostgreSQL (and there are several both free and commercial) and manually enter the data. For the output to the users I would still recommend PHP (a programming language which would not be all that difficult for you to pickup if you have done some programming).