Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?

1999-11-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/1/99 8:32:30 PM, you wrote: Try Sybase... :-) Is it free? Can I get RPMs of it somewhere? If not, I'll pass thanks. I believe Sybase *is* free (for now... later versions MAY cost money.) Check out the following UR --

Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?

1999-11-03 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Is it free? Can I get RPMs of it somewhere? If not, I'll pass thanks. I believe Sybase *is* free (for now... later versions MAY cost money.) Check out the following UR -- http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/linux/index.html This directly from the web page above. Download links

Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?

1999-11-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: Try Sybase... :-) It rocks!!! At the ISP where I work, we are hosting the FIRST authorized electronic check conversion system (authorized by the Feds and by the banking industry!) and it has a HUGE database, and is being run off a couple Sybase servers. :-)

Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?

1999-11-02 Thread Gerry Doyon
We run Sybase at work for our in-house apps. But, if your application does not need to do "fancy" transactions or stored procedures than MySQL is my choice. The speed blows Sybase away because it doesn't have all that "overhead". John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon,

[newbie] SQL systems comparison?

1999-11-01 Thread Damien Mc Kenna
For doing a pretty large databased web site for a college department (with all the cool stuff in PHP), which would people recommend I use: PostreSQL or MySQL? I've noticed that a lot of the PHP packages I'm looking at seem to favor MySQL, but PostgreSQL is getting more support these days.

Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?

1999-11-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:40:03PM -0500, Damien Mc Kenna wrote: For doing a pretty large databased web site for a college department (with all the cool stuff in PHP), which would people recommend I use: PostreSQL or MySQL? I've noticed that a lot of the

Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:40:03PM -0500, Damien Mc Kenna wrote: For doing a pretty large databased web site for a college department (with all the cool stuff in PHP), which would people recommend I use: PostreSQL or MySQL? I've