Looking for a database

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 11:33, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Could someone please recommend a nice and well documented database
> > > program for a person who has never used a database?
> >
> > That's not much to go on when asking for a recommendation.
> > The obvious choices on fedora will be MySQL and postgresql
> > and between those, postgresql follows the sql standards
> > more closely and has a less restrictive license.  Mysql
> > might be slightly faster if your usage is mostly read-only.
> >
> > You'll also need client side tools.  Perl/php/java are
> > often used for web access and there are some generic
> > frameworks available.  Openoffice/base could be used
> > for something more interactive.
> 
> Thanks to all. I have tried OpenOffice Base, but it is slow.
> Postgresql seems to be nice. Is there some gui for it, i.e., for
> postgresql?

If you like base otherwise, you can use postgresql as the
backend though odbc or this:
http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/postgresql/
Depending on what you are doing, it may be a good idea to
design it so that you can access the tables through an
assortment of tools.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com