Database Front end suggestion

[Shawn Tayler]

Thanks...  I'll give that a whirl too.

On a side note,

Would any of you care to put your $0.02 in on the merits or advantages of
either postgresql or mysql over the other?

I spent a great deal of time gettimg my tables working and importing data
today into a mysql dbase today.  Looking at the "Beginning Databnases with
Postgresql" things seem a bit easier.  

Just looking for insight on the subject.

Shawn

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:42:09 -0800 Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com>
exclaimed:

> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> >
> >Thanks Bill,
> >
> >I'll look into these today....
> 
> There's also a pgaccess program, but I've never used it.
> 
> >Shawn
> >
> >On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:02:20 -0800 Bill Campbell
> ><linux-sxs at celestial.com> exclaimed:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> >> >Hi Guys,
> >> >
> >> >I have a problem.  I am not at all familiar with perl or PHP or
> >Pythoin,> >my last coding bit was some very simple awk and sed scripts
> >and the> >QuickBasic coding about 20 years ago.  I need to shuffle a
> >large about> >of data into and through a database.  I have both
> >postgresql and mysql> >operational on a box with 300G of LVD SCSI HD
> >space, 1G RAM and, a P4> >2.8Ghz chip.  
> >> >
> >> >What I really need is a newbie friendly frontend that will allow me
> >to> >build tables and run queries and impoirt and export data and
> >results.> >
> >> >I spent a couple hours just trying to build a table in mysql today,
> >> >apparently the syntax in the book is wrong and I'm spinning my
> >wheels.  > >
> >> >Would you fine gents know of something?  Linux and Open Source would
> >be> >great but I can shell out some sheckles  if needed.
> >> 
> >> There are a couple of general purpose php based utilities for working
> >> with postgresql and mysql, phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin.  OpenOffice.org
> >> interfaces nicely using jdbc or odbc connections to either of these
> >> databases (jdbc is probably a better choice as OpenOffice.org has
> >strong> java roots).  Zope and Plone have excellent tools for working
> >with back> end databases.
> >> 
> >> Bill
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