From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 4:53: 3 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 7BDBA37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19E543ED8 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:53:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5782CA; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:49:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 35B642FDAF5; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:52:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:52:58 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Matthew Seaman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: just aquestion Message-ID: <20021223125257.GD690@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021223120001.GA15678@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021223120001.GA15678@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk / 2002-12-23 12:00:01 +0000: > 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 The FreeBSD Handbook contains an article on setting up Oracle (8 IIRC) on FreeBSD. It is somewhat outdated, and all I've noted on this list regarding setting up Oracle were people who have couldn't get the thing working according to the article. It just might not work anymore. MS SQL Server (I suppose that's what you mean by "sql server") is a Windows-only application, IOW it does not run on unix. I don't know about Informix. You need an ODBC driver to query any DBMS, so provided a server has an ODBC interface, you should be ok. > 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. There's also Firebird (previously InterBase). -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message