From owner-freebsd-database Tue Jan 27 04:51:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA11179 for database-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 04:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [209.47.148.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA11171 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 04:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id HAA07888; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:51:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:51:12 -0500 (EST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which SQL Database for Web Applications ? In-Reply-To: <199801271555.PAA15787@ajax.wcs.uq.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Gary Roberts wrote: > The Hermit Hacker writes: > > > > How viable would > .... > > > Depends on what you mean by viable...most of what you describe > > above is alot of front-end code, and therefore could be done using any of > > the three... > > Sure, so what do most people use to write front-ends? I guess I'm looking > for advice based on (others) experience in that I don't have the time to > get that experience myself. I'm willing to pay someone to do the initial > development and then (probably) take over the ongoing maintenance and > enhancement of the system myself. For that reason it would need to be > something relatively easy for a novice to understand and master. I've not looked into MySQL and what it has available, but PostgreSQL has interfaces for C, C++, perl, JDBC, ODBC, tcl, python, and PHP/FI supports it. I've programmed interfaces in C, perl and PHP/FI...and find that perl tends to be about the most comfortable for me.