MySQL sounds like your answer Teddy. Runs perfectly well on Linux and
Windows.
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Hi all,
I want to start learning a database
databases.
Paul Arsenault, CCNA
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:32:25 -0500
Teddy --
...and then Octavian Rasnita said
depends what you need to do, PHP has become VERY popular
Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/05/02 10:58PM
Hi all,
I want to start learning a database that works with Perl but I would like to
learn a database that works under Windows and Unix also.
Is there such a thing?
Of course, I would
That's a good point. Are there still advantages to using Perl over using
PHP? I'd be bummed to hear I'm using a dying language.
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That's a good point. Are there still advantages to using Perl over using
PHP? I'd be bummed to hear I'm using a dying language.
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it.
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That's a good point. Are there still advantages to using Perl
over using
advantages to using Perl over using
PHP? I'd be bummed to hear I'm using a dying language.
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depends
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Perl a dying language?
are you nutz?!?!?!
Haven't you been reading the Apocalypse pages for PERL 6??!?!?
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse
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Forgive me Nikola. In this business you need to stay
/7/2002 12:12 PM
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Forgive me Nikola. In this business you need to stay as
marketable as
possible. I
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Forgive me Nikola. In this business you need
I would go for Postgres, if I were you. Relational, transactions, and
foreign key assignments. May be a little slower than MySQL, but pretty much
the same in stability.
-James
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From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:59 PM
Not to be pedantic, but isn't PHP a *language*, not a
database? So you could use almost any particular
database with either PHP or Perl. Or does PHP have
it's own built-in database and that's what you meant?
(I looked at PHP a little once, and I have to admit a
knee-jerk negative reaction to a
John, et al --
...and then John Brooking said...
%
% Not to be pedantic, but isn't PHP a *language*, not a
% database? So you could use almost any particular
Yes, it is; it doesn't have its own database built in. For someone
starting out doing web stuff it wouldn't be bad to pick up, even if
Paul --
Thanks for the reply.
...and then Paul Arsenault said...
%
% MySQL is a relational database.
%
% Taken from the mysql documentation page at
% http://www.mysql.org/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Introduction.html#Features
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% MySQL is a relational database management system.
Paul, et al --
...and then Paul Arsenault said...
%
% MySQL is a relational database.
I've followed up and have more information -- sort of. My pal couldn't
provide hard data but pointed not only to extra stuff like transactions
(I don't think anyone is saying that transactions are part of
Relational databasing just means that there are keys associated between the
different databases that allows the database software to easily make matches
from one database table to another very quickly and efficiently. I don't
know if you've ever heard the term primary key before, but it
Paul Arsenault wrote:
database. As for transactions, only very high-end commercial databases
(such as your friend's Oracle) support transactions. They are only
that's not true - postgresql supports transactions.
and according to this page:
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