[ubuntu-za] Database Problems

Ian Whitfield whitfield at federalsaints.net
Sun Jan 24 17:57:09 GMT 2010


Thanks to all for the replies.

In reply........

I was sent a link by Hannes Coetzee for the book "How to do everything 
in PHP and MySQL". I have spent today reading it and it seems very good. 
My reservation is using MySQL, now Orical owns it, but it will also work 
with PostgrSQL. Then again Raoul recommends I stay away from PHP!!??

Ewald's (and others) suggestion of a Web based solution "rattles" me. 
I'm old school - started with CP/M and DOS!! And putting everything on 
the Web does not "fit" with me and don't get me started on Cloud 
Computing and Web Applications!! This is the worst idea ever to come up 
in the Computer World IMHO.

I seem to think there has to be an answer for this that runs in it's own 
environment. I fully understand the Server/Client structure as explained 
but would be interested in your opinion on which will be better for me, 
Client/Server or just local machine.

I also follow the details of the individual parts needed to put together 
a Linux system and this seems where I'm coming un-stuck. One reply 
mentioned I look for an already built system. I tried this but came up 
with nothing I liked, in fact the only ones that came close were all Web 
based (see my feelings on this above) AND not free! However maybe I'm 
misunderstanding what is being suggested. Is it meant to develop a "Web 
based" front-end BUT only use it as a local application?

I need a front-end for adding, editing and generally working with my 
data. I'm happy to run queries and reports from outside the front-end. 
In fact the OOBase front-end is perfect - it's the rest of the program 
that is the problem.

Thanks again for all the great input. I will go over the installation 
again and report on the errors I get. As well as working through the 
suggestions given on this list.


Ian





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