From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 00:01:02 2005 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 73A7116A5A8 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:01:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from prosporo.hedron.org (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9284A43D5C for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:00:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@hedron.org) Received: from localhost.hedron.org (localhost.hedron.org [127.0.0.1]) by prosporo.hedron.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8143EC0C5; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:00:35 -0500 (EST) From: Ean Kingston To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, cinnur@comcast.net Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:00:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <420BF178.9010107@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <420BF178.9010107@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502101900.34862.ean@hedron.org> Subject: Re: SQL Questions 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, 11 Feb 2005 00:01:02 -0000 On February 10, 2005 06:42 pm, Sean wrote: > I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life > currently, round now for learning. > > Right now plan to install MySQL. > Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for > server, some say for client. > > Looking for some tips as to what version of SQL and tools to install? If you want to play with an SQL server, you are going to need one of the mysql-server ports/packages. Since this would be a new install for you and you don't really have any requirements I would suggest going with the newest production version (not a development release). The client is included with the server. In a production environment, the client would often be installed on many systems but the server only on a few. > Also wondering if anyone can point me towards documentation in my > learning efforts? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html http://www.mysql.com/ SQL servers are complicated things. Read through the documentation, follow examples and try them out for yourself. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/