Re: [Sheflug] Databases

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:41:02AM +0100, Peter Collier wrote:
> and reports as required for job. I've had a quick look at adabas, mysql 
> etc, but I haven't been able to get the guist of them. They give me the 
> impression of being something totally diferent and not very self 
> explanatory. Perhaps I'm not reading and studying them hard enough. Is 

	I think that the databases you mention (only experience here is
with MySQL) might be what you want. I guess that the ones you used in
the past in Win/DOS provided both a database engine (something that
stores your data and queries it to let you find the wanted stuff) and
the user interface bit (the code that lets you generate forms). In Linux
(normally), what you get is a piece of software for the backend
(postgresql, mysql...) that does all the dirty work and which you can
query using standard calls (namely, the SQL language), and on the other
hand, you get an user interface to query the database, generate forms,
reports, so that you don't have to worry about the backend at all.

	While SQL is easy enough to learn for simple things, you might
want to invest some time in looking at stuff like Data Architect (a
commercial product, I think). There are other options available for
free. There's a simple db program called Gaby which might do simple
things.

	Hope the above rumblings were fo any use :-)
	Jose
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