Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:45:32 -0400 Steve Litt napísal: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 21:05:10 -0600 > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > I've always thought that's *exactly* what makes it a text file. If > every character's ascii value is between 32 and 126, along with > CarriageReturn and Linefeed, it's a

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 21:05:10 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs > "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense > of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I > think it serves the purpose).

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs >>> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be ma

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs >> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense >> of in a text editor (that's not a precise defi

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs > "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense > of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I > think it serves the purpose). Wh

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Are you aware of SQLite? > > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what > I am after. Using Perl with DBI with an SQLite database works

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: >2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" : >> >> Joel Rees writes: >> >> > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi >> >> wrote: >> >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite >> >> > looks >> >> >

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: > 2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" : >> >> Joel Rees writes: >> >> > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi >> >> wrote: >> >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite >> >> > looks >> >>

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" : > > Joel Rees writes: > > > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : > >> > >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi > >> wrote: > >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > >> > very promising. There is a Perl DBI I

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : >> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi >> wrote: >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks >> > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what >> > I am af

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi > wrote: > > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what > > I am after. > > >> > 2) I want the

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Roth
Bob Proulx wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > I have some data in text format organized as follows > > > > field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 > > val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 > > val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 > > ... > > val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 > > > > > >

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 04:03:26PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Someone else wrote (attribution removed previously) >> > > If you are already sed/grep/awk then stop at awk. :-) > > > > Seriously though what do you want to do that can't be done easily with awk? > I do use awk and have some

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what > I am after. >> > 2) I want the data to be in text format. SQLite keeps data in b

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> > I looked at mysql (http://zetcode.com/databases/mysqltutorial/), but > there > > the configuration seems to focus on having a central database that could > be > > shared across different users. This does not work for me for three > reasons: > > Are you aware of SQLite? > I am still exploring a

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I have some data in text format organized as follows field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 ... val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 I want to do database (sql) like operat

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have some data in text format organized as follows > > field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 > val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 > val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 > ... > val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 > > > I want to do database (sql) like operati

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-05 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, July 06, 2014 01:21:31 AM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have some data in text format organized as follows > > field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 > val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 > val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 > ... > val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 > > > I w

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-05 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 01:21:31 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I want to do database (sql) like operations on this data. For As you're the only user and not in a hurry, use sqlite (also install sqlitebrowser that eases sqlite DBs exploration). Search on the web how to pour data from your flat f

simple database solution without root access

2014-07-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I have some data in text format organized as follows field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 ... val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 I want to do database (sql) like operations on this data. For example, - I want

Re: simple database?

2002-04-02 Thread Petro
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48AM -0600, dman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Petro wrote: > | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:44:25PM -0800, Tom Cook wrote: > | > multi-user capabilities, or real scalability. Also PostgreSQL is a > | What is "real" scalability? I've used Mysql

Re: simple database?

2002-03-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:48:43PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: | On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48 -0600, dman wrote: | > I couldn't find it recently when I googled, but a while back I read | > some articles written by someone at sourceforge. He was describing | > the comparision he did of se

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48AM -0600, dman wrote: [snip] > yielded faster responses. However (at the time at least) its locking > was table-level. This means that if someone is updating a row in a > table, then no one else can read any other row in that table. > PostgreSQL had more overhead o

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48 -0600, dman wrote: > I couldn't find it recently when I googled, but a while back I read > some articles written by someone at sourceforge. He was describing > the comparision he did of several RDBMSes in the deployment of > sourceforge. http://www.phpbuilder.com/

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Petro wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:44:25PM -0800, Tom Cook wrote: | > multi-user capabilities, or real scalability. Also PostgreSQL is a | | What is "real" scalability? I've used Mysql on tiny machines | (Tadpole laptop) to dual processor

NOSQL (was Re: simple database?)

2002-03-25 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Is anyone out there actually using "NoSQL"? It looks interesting to me. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Petro
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:44:25PM -0800, Tom Cook wrote: > Don't use mySql. Eventually you will want transactions, or some real Mysql-Max already supports transactions. I'm not sure what you mean by "Multi-user capabilities" (I'm not a DBA, I just support a dev group). > multi-user

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:42:58AM -0700, Brian wrote: > ... > > Finally, if you are going to start using databases, you may as well use > > Postgresql because it is a database you can grow into. > > I too need a database, but for huge amount of

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:01:54PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 13:59, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > So the big question is: > > > >Does anyone know whether it's possible to bypass the SQL layer in > >PostgresSQL? > > No, it isn't possible. Thanks for the confirm

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 13:59, Carel Fellinger wrote: > The nice thing of PostgresSQL is that you have a powerfull query > language, so you don't have to program each and every usage. But.. > > ...the disadvantage is that you have to use that query language. You > see, those dicts are to be used i

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:42:58AM -0700, Brian wrote: ... > Finally, if you are going to start using databases, you may as well use > Postgresql because it is a database you can grow into. I too need a database, but for huge amount of information, think of three annotated natural language dictio

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Brian
ng I could use for that? I hate to go and try to learn postgresql or something, as that looks pretty daunting. Is there a simple database out there that would be good for this? thanks! Jeff -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: simple database?

2002-03-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
g, as that looks pretty > daunting. Is there a simple database out there that would be good for > this? bibtex format? Then you can use them in your LaTeX documents too! -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: simple database?

2002-03-24 Thread Tom Cook
that looks pretty > daunting. Is there a simple database out there that would be good for > this? You could try installing postgres and the pgaccess front-end - it gives you a gui front end ala M$ Access, though not quite that complicated (or competant) last I looked (which was a while ago)

Re: simple database?

2002-03-24 Thread Michael D. Crawford
If you'd like to access your database via C++ objects rather than SQL, you can use the database classes included with the ZooLib cross-platform application framework. http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/ An advantage of the zoolib database is that the databases are entirely contained within single

simple database?

2002-03-24 Thread Jeff Maxson
Hi all, I've got a ton of books, and I was thinking about cataloging them in some sort of database. What would be something I could use for that? I hate to go and try to learn postgresql or something, as that looks pretty daunting. Is there a simple database out there that would be goo

Re: simple database recommendations?

2001-08-28 Thread James D Strandboge
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:03:36PM + or thereabouts, joe golden wrote: Another option is postgresql with pgaccess. -- "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." -- Author unknown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: simple database recommendations?

2001-08-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:14:17PM -0600, John Purser wrote: > Doesn't Star Office come with a Database? I've never used it but you might > want to start looking there. Yes, and it comes with an address book database as an example... Unfortunately, it is a resource hog (possibly no worse than Moz

Re: simple database recommendations?

2001-08-27 Thread Sean
relies a lot on plug-ins. Sean On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:03:36 "joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a simple database program for our small school. We need to > maintain address lists and print them on labels. A graphical interface is a >

RE: simple database recommendations?

2001-08-27 Thread John Purser
tware will make me anathema on this list but such is life. If some linux person is going to be maintaining / using the database then by all means use something else but if ease of use is a high priority I would go with filemaker. On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, joe golden wrote: > I am looking for a simpl

Re: simple database recommendations?

2001-08-27 Thread Thomas Hallaran
list but such is life. If some linux person is going to be maintaining / using the database then by all means use something else but if ease of use is a high priority I would go with filemaker. On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, joe golden wrote: > I am looking for a simple database program for our small sch

simple database recommendations?

2001-08-27 Thread joe golden
I am looking for a simple database program for our small school. We need to maintain address lists and print them on labels. A graphical interface is a must. Something like a simple version of access would be good. I am looking at freecdb, exdbm, mysql and db2 or db3. Simple and low