From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 4: 0:15 2002 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 C193037B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:00:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344F243ED8 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:00:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBNC069Y015891 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:00:06 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBNC01fV015890 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:00:01 GMT Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:00:01 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: just aquestion Message-ID: <20021223120001.GA15678@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:13:31AM +0000, osama zekry wrote: > hi there i am wonder ( think ) that your operating system is support a dbms > ( data base managment system) such as oracle 8i, sql server, informix . > please tell me quikly and how can i install the dbms and how can i connect > to it using visual basic 6 There are several RDBMS products available and supported on FreeBSD: the two most popular are MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/) and PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.com/) Unlike the examples you give, you can use both of those packages for free. To install, use the FreeBSD ports system http://www.freebsd.org/ports/, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html or by grabbing pre-compiled packages from one of the ftp sites http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/applications.html You'll probably need to grab the appropriate ODBC drivers from the developer sites (http://www.mysql.com/products/myodbc/, ftp://ftp10.us.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/odbc/versions/full) and install them onto your Windows box in order to interface with VB6, but that's just my educated guess as I don't use any sort of MS machine. Note: you don't want the ODBC stuff from the FreeBSD ports, as that's desidned to run on FreeBSD and what you need has to run on Windows. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message