Thanks much for your cautions, Tim, but no harm done at all. Looks like
most people endorsed MySql. SQL Lite is totaling a little weak, and
Postgres is as good as MySql, just has more of an emphasis on db internals
rather than (MySql's) GUI. MySql's freeness might be getting shakey,
except when under Linspire (Linux). For this app, the design version is
in Access, prod on Linux. Circa 6 concurrent users, 24 tables, 3 lookup
tables of which are updated/supplied by federal and CA state agencies,
linked to, not internal to the app.
Tim Bunce
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Armstrong
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com> cc: dbi-users@perl.org,
cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net
Subject: Re: What's the best
"free" DB for a web-based app?
11/30/2005 03:27
AM
I'd just like to ask anyone thinking of replying to this thread to *please*
only do so if you can add something useful that's not already been said,
and do so politely, with consideration for the validity of other peoples
views.
Tim.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:02:23PM -0800, John Armstrong wrote:
>
> Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll need
> database. We want the db to be as "free" as possible, but still fully
> multi-user (web-based). Would the best route be MySql on Linux? Random
> access files? Something else? We want no licensing obligations (no
Oracle,
> Sequal Server, etc.). We want to go with Perl because it's the best
> programming language invented by humans.
>
