From owner-freebsd-database Tue Mar 19 6:27:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from Millions.Ca (h-207-228-120-32.gen.cadvision.com [207.228.120.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9D937B400 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by Millions.Ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) id g2JERXh30813; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:27:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.Ca) Received: from Cedar.Millions.Ca(192.168.64.8) via SMTP by mail-gw-0.millions.ca, id smtpdh30811; Tue Mar 19 07:27:30 2002 Received: from millions.ca (Maple.Millions.Ca [192.168.64.2]) by cedar.millions.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2JERMl54515; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:27:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from stacy@millions.ca) Message-ID: <3C974ACA.EFDAF158@millions.ca> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:27:22 -0700 From: Stacy Millions Organization: Millions Consulting Limited X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike ndabarasa Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a more philosophical question !!! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mike ndabarasa wrote: > here is my question: > how does one get something usefull from such a box ? do we > need a shell login to work with it(at www.mysql.com i saw > they suppose you are working from a shell login)? or can we > querry it with a particular program(let say access!) from a > Win*&^s box in a networked environment? I guess it is time I stop using RTFM and change to RTFHP (what do you think sounds better HP for Home Page or WP for Web Page? :-) Any way, if you go to TFHP at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/contrib.html you will find a list of client software as well as APIs (so you can write applications that access the database). Some are windows based. -stacy -- You'll see it's all a show. Keep 'em laughing as you go. Just remember that the last laugh is on you. - Monty Python _The Life Of Brian_ Stacy Millions stacy@millions.ca Millions Consulting Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message