Database choosing

[Chipp Walters]

Hello Oak,

We're ready to release SQLite for Revolution including Mac/PC/Linux. 
Contact me offlist if you'd like to see the demo/tutorial. It's by far 
the easiest database to install and configure. In fact, the demo 
installs it for you :-)

best,

Chipp Walters
Altuit,Inc.

Oak Norton wrote:
> 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