Linux Stand Alone Database?

[david]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 18:16, Martin Maney wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:43:55AM -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> > Thank you for taking the time to answer, but I hoped to avoid
> > all of the "here's why there's a better solution" by making the
> 
> I think you do at least some respondents a disservice here.  Not all of
> them have been trying to "educate" you.  :-)
> 
> > The question I was hoping to get answered is if there is a single
> > binary/package/application with the database engine and gui
> > front-end all together for Linux. I'm not asking whether it is a
> 
> If there is, then no one has found it yet - will that do?  I wish I
> could remember where I came across a discussion of this very thing
> recently, but no existing application was found there, either.
> 
> > Sorry if any of that sounds frustrated . . . it's 3 a.m. here
> > and it's been a long night.
> 
> Been there, done that, sounded much worse than you do. :-/
> 
> So, assuming there is no such app, what's next?  I think that's the
> step that many of those replying have been trying to take.
> 
> -- 
> During much of that epoch [the thirties and early forties],
> I gained my livelihood writing for the silver screen,
> an occupation which, like herding swine, makes the vocabulary pungent
> but contributes little to one's prose style.  -- S J Perelman
> 

I can't speak for Ubuntu as I haven't tried it yet but, there are two
apps the sort of meet your requirements (possibly).
Knoda, (this requires mysql & mysql-devel to be installed), it has a gui
for design of databases including a relational editor and a form
designer (with some queries built in).
THe other one os kexi, this is sort of part of the Koffice suite, but
has to be added manually. Again, it has a gui with all sorts of bells
and whistles.
I must stress to you that I am not a database designer and have only
played around with both. Of the two, I had most success with Knoda.

http://knoda.org
http://www.koffice.org/kexi/

I hope this helps

regards

David