Richard R. Sivernell wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 11:13:38 -0600 > > I have expertise in software development databases & some scripting of > Unix korn bash, though not heavy. I ve a question here, I need a very small > footprint database for linux. I have a laptop that currently has peanut on it > & I have left approx 1.6 gig left, I need to put Open Office and development > tools and a small sql database. any recommendations. Mysql did not > ook good at first sight, Postgres is to large I think, Oracle/db 2 is out. If
I agree that Oracle & DB2 couldn't, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered "small footprint" DBs. PostgreSQL really doesn't occupy significantly more room (or memory) than MySQL, and is far more mature & full featured. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 4:10pm up 43 days, 23:01, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.18, 0.35 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
