[CLUG] Postgresql

[michael dempsey]

Which one of those will sell or is selling linux to the business community?
I suppose it will be down to the big gun's (oracle,corel etc)
because of support ($$$$$$)
Much helpful Donnacha,
Mike
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>From: Donncha O Caoimh <donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com>
>To: michael dempsey <dempsey_michael at hotmail.com>, cork at linux.ie
>Subject: Re: [CLUG] Postgresql
>Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:13:46 +0100
>
>When you say database suite, and from the mail below I presume you mean
>a nice GUI app builder. Corel have Paradox in their office suite which
>is a steal at less than 200 quid. (I think)
>MySQL and PostgreSQL are database servers along the lines of Oracle,
>DB2, Informix etc. (Just don't get sticky and say MySQL isn't an RDBMS
>because it lacks X feature.. ;) but you can get quite a few tools to
>manipulate them from a GUI.
>kmysql has a form builder but I couldn't get it to actually save the
>forms (had drag and drop stuff though :)
>PostgreSQL has some kind of database design tool which looks nice.
>phpmyadmin is a VERY nice web based admin tool for MySQL.
>
>MySQL is blazingly fast. I haven't benchmarked it myself against other
>DBs, but we've been using it for almost 2 years in Tradesignals.com and
>the latest release supports transactions and replication (though
>transactions are still not absolutely ready for production use, you can
>define some tables as transaction-aware tables, and others as "normal"
>tables.. you only sacrifice speed in the tables that need atomic
>operations! )
>
>Don't get me started on MS Access ;)
>
>Donncha.
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