Database choosing

[Pierre Sahores]

Hi Jim,

Here < http://www.sybase.com/mac> will you find the right one witch 
installs in minutes trough a cool gui under Mac OS X. As long as i did 
never setup it to work with Revolution, i will not be very helpfull. I 
would recommand to test the ODBC way first and the shell pipes beetwin 
Rev and the Sybase ASE transactions manager, as the second.

Else, you could test PostgreSQL 8.0.1 first. If interested, have an eye 
to the first class distribution packed by Mark Liyanage at 
<http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/>

Best, Pierre :-)

> I went to the Sybase site and found they have a "hot deal".  Seems 
> they are
> selling "Sybase Enterprise Portal Information Edition 6.1" for Linux 
> and
> Windows for $99.  What does this mean?  Is this all one needs to use 
> Sybase?
> Then we use the standard db interface commands with Rev?  There is a 
> Linux
> and Windows version but no Mac.  We could still have a database on a 
> Linux
> server and a Mac client interfacing with it, right?  Jim
>
>     on 4/14/05 6:34 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
>
>> As Len previoulsy said there, PostgreSQL 7 and 8 are realy very great
>> ACID compliant ORDBMS and i use them as the back-ends of all my
>> "n-tier" solutions since years with a very great confidence. In about
>> dozains of megaoctets to hundreds of gigaoctets of datas peer database
>> well designed, PostgreSQL rocks. In about more heavy solutions, i 
>> would
>> goes, directly, to a Sybase ASE solution instead of an Oracle one (a
>> little too java-centered for me - the linux installer included), even
>> if Oracle is, for sure, a powerfull tool and, yet, a less expensive
>> solution than it use to be until two years ago.
>>
>> It will probably be a good idea to avoid, if possible, the less
>> powerfull MS SQL-Server solution...
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Pierre
>>
>> Le 14 avr. 05, à 20:50, Oak Norton a écrit :
>>
>>> Hello all, I'm a total newbie to Revolution and I have limited
>>> programming
>>> experience.  I'm one of those people I read about in a recent post 
>>> that
>>> needs a solution so I figure out how to program it for myself.  My
>>> experience has mostly been with cold fusion and MS-SQL/Access.  I've
>>> been
>>> leaning toward MySQL for a cross-platform project, but from the posts
>>> on
>>> this board I'm just about ready to look at PostgreSQL.  I know 
>>> there's
>>> some
>>> differences between all the SQL's but don't know much about what they
>>> are.
>>> In the example below I see a bit of code which illustrated that point
>>> and
>>> just worries me a tad because I find Access invaluable to build 
>>> queries
>>> quickly and test them out and if I didn't have to change the code at
>>> all,
>>> that would be a big plus.  So which of the sql flavors is closest to
>>> MSSQL
>>> and will go cross-platform?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Oak
>>>
>>>
>>>> It's been my experience that if you ultimately want to move
>>>> to Oracle,
>>>> Postgresql is a better choice than mySQL because PG tries to be as
>>>> Oracle compatible as possible.  I can also tell you from
>>>> experience that
>>>> if you want to move to MS SQL Server later, be VERY careful
>>>> about your
>>>> SQL since there are lots of things that are incompatible even with
>>>> "simple" SQL statements.  For example, in Oracle/Postgres you
>>>> would join
>>>> two fields you would use something like SELECT last_name || ', ' ||
>>>> first_name whereas in MS SQL it would be SELECT last_name + ', ' +
>>>> first_name (very VB like).
>>>
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