From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 19 19:56:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27746 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:56:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ohio.river.org (river.org [209.24.233.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27741 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhawk@ohio.river.org) Received: (from dhawk@localhost) by ohio.river.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id TAA25029 for isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:55:51 -0700 (PDT) From: David Hawkins Message-Id: <199808200255.TAA25029@ohio.river.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Oracle To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:55:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > already exists. The only problem is I don't know if Oracle has a version > out for FreeBSD yet. I don't think they do. That leaves you with a couple of options: 1. Run the Oracle SQL server on another Unix machine (Sun, HP, AIX, etc.) and have the CGI scripts send queries/updates/reads to that port on the other machine. If you want to use Intel hardware then check Solaris and see if Oracle/Sybase/Informix have a Solaris 86 port. True, it's not FreeBSD, but for that ... 2. Use a SQL server in the ports collection. You can go ahead and download one and play with it -- it's not going to be much different going to one of the big name SQL servers later if you need to. I believe Best uses msql on their FreeBSD machines. Taking a look in /usr/ports/databases: Makefile msql p5-Msql postgresql xmysql cdb mysql p5-Mysql py-PyGreSQL xmysqladmin db p5-DBD-Pg p5-Pg tkgnats gdbm p5-DBI pgaccess typhoon gnats p5-MLDBM pkg xmbase-grok Personally I'd use postgres if I was doing this on FreeBSD. Once you know SQL (updates, queries, bulk copies, etc.) it's fairly easy to move to a different SQL server later if you need to. Disclaimer: Yes, I work for Sybase. But use Oracle if you want to. I just don't think it works on FreeBSD -- yet. later, david -- David Hawkins -- dhawk@river.org http://www.river.org/~dhawk "Trouble is like a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends." -- Arlene Francis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message