I run a small business. A year and a half ago I embarked on a jorney to
port my DOS Foxpro Database to linux. I selected mysql as an the engine
and and begand writing the app. using perl/dbi and perlmenu
module/curses as the front end at first I used NFS to share the databse
files on the LAN.
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
I run a small business. A year and a half ago I embarked on a
jorney to port my DOS Foxpro Database to linux. I selected mysql as
an the engine and and begand writing the app. using perl/dbi and
perlmenu module/curses as the
Thanks for the reply. Curses worked OK. But I was convinced that a web
server would be more efficient than NFS for sharing the database files.
Is that true? Or is a NFS a longtime viable solution for clients on the
LAN quering the database.
Richard
"Jeremy D. Zawodny" wrote:
On Wed, Jan
You can connect to the DB on Linux using ODBC over any TCP/IP network, and
you don't need to worry about NFS, File sharing, Samba etc.
All you need is MySQL on Linux connected to your network and ODBC will
connect on port 3306 over TCP/IP, that's all you need.
A system built this way can use many
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:49:30PM -0800, Jeremy D. Zawodny wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:58:11PM -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Curses worked OK. But I was convinced that a
web server would be more efficient than NFS for sharing the database
files. Is that
Can someone tell me whats worng with my syntax:
use DBI;
$dbh = DBI-connect("DBI:mysql:rushload\@leader","richard", "passwd");
leader = name of server, rushload = name of database
Do I need a port number if so which one should I use?
Richard
"Jeremy D. Zawodny" wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17,
