now it's SQLite (was... Re: Newcomer)

Michael Reade mvreade at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 10 13:25:55 EDT 2004


Sorry, please disregard. My mistake.



on 3/18/04 5:17 PM, Andre Garzia at soapdog at mac.com wrote:

> 
> On Mar 18, 2004, at 7:08 PM, Michael Reade wrote:
> 
>> So I guess the short of it is that if you are going to embed a db,
>> SQLite is
>> the way to go, and if you are serving it to multiple users, MySQL is
>> the way
>> to go.
>> 
> 
> Thats what I think, here people might have other opinions. For serving
> multiple-users, across network connection there's MySQL and
> PostgreeSQL.
> For single user there are many ways, besides valentina and SQLite.
> 
> 1) You can just use plain transcript and save to a stack.
> 
> 2) You can use XML as information storage facility. Or even plain text.
> 
> 3) You can check serendipty library, which is very good in 100%
> transcript code, it doesn't support SQL statements, but if you don't
> need them, it's a way to go.
> <http://www.oenolog.net/ftp/serendipity_downloader.htm>. And serendipty
> is also networkable, comes with server/client architecture.
> 
> As soon as I get the grip of XML in Revolution,  I'll write a .plist
> lib.
> 
> Cheers
> Andre
> 
> 
> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 



More information about the use-livecode mailing list