On Saturday, November 26, 2011 1:01:34 AM UTC+8, rusi wrote: > On Nov 14, 3:41 pm, Tracubik <affdfs...@b.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > i'm developing a new program. > > Mission: learn a bit of database management > > Idea: create a simple, 1 window program that show me a db of movies i've > > seen with few (<10) fields (actors, name, year etc) > > technologies i'll use: python + gtk > > db: that's the question > > > > since i'm mostly a new-bye for as regard databases, my idea is to use > > sqlite at the beginning. > > > > Is that ok? any other db to start with? (pls don't say mysql or similar, > > they are too complex and i'll use this in a second step) > > > > is there any general tutorial of how to start developing a database? i > > mean a general guide to databases you can suggest to me? > > Thank you all > > > > MedeoTL > > > > P.s. since i have a ods sheet files (libreoffice calc), is there a way to > > easily convert it in a sqlite db? (maybe via csv) > > To learn DBMS you need to learn sql > [Note sql is necessary but not sufficient for learning DBMS] > I recommend lightweight approaches to start with -- others have > mentioned access, libreoffice-base. > One more lightweight playpen is firefox plugin sqlite-manager > > > Is that ok? any other db to start with? (pls don't say mysql or similar, > > they are too complex and i'll use this in a second step) > > Correct. First you must figure out how to structure data -- jargon is > normalization. > After that you can look at transactions, ACID, distribution and all > the other good stuff.
If I have a fast hash library that each hash function supports insertion and deletion and can be frozen to be stored into the file system if desired and retrieved lator . Can I use several hashes to replace a database that is slow and expensive? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
