Re: Newbie with lots of questions

On 5/17/06, Martin Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wednesday 17 May 2006 14:39, Philip Stephens wrote:
> > Basically you're going to have to migrate your db to mysql or
> > postgresql.
>
> I'm not sure that's the case at all.  There are plenty of database
> applications that will let you store the database in a single file as
> in Access.
>
> These include Kexi, Knoda, OpenOffice.org Base, and I'm sure the Gnome
> community have an offering too.  It'd be much more prudent to check
> that none of these satisfy the requirements first.
>
> Encouraging people to learn how to set up, secure, and arrange a
> decent backup arrangement for a database server isn't a good way to
> introduce people to databases on Linux!


Point well taken.  I am a newbie to db's and I am glad you were here to
re-direct and educate.  What if I had said nothing?  I certainly would not
have found out about kexi or knoda anytime soon. Thanks.

Martin
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