Re: [Sheflug] RE: Databases

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:06 24/09/01 +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>Peter,
>
>I'm not quite sure exactly what you're trying to do, my MySQL is fairly well
>documented - the manuals are at the MySQL site (mysql.org?) and there are
>probably manpages too.
>
>PostgreSQL is another alternative if you're looking for a full SQL database.
>Oracle 8i is also available for Linux - you'll still need to pay for licenses
>though.
>
>As far as creating forms goes, the only experience with that I've got is 
>using
>AOLserver and Tcl to interact with an Oracle database, or Apache and PHP to
>talk to a MySQL database, both resulting in dynamic webpages with information
>from the database. (Oracle was on both Solaris and Linux, MySQL on Linux)
>
>Dunno if that helps, but I thought I'd give my 2p.

If it's any consolation, I currently know sod all about either MySQL or 
PHP, but I'm plugging on with them and seem to be getting somewhere.


Steve

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