Two SQL servers come to mind for linux. MySQL is popular and commonly available; I have no personal experience with that one. Postgres is another one which is available at ftp.postgres.org and I have some experience with that one. I understand that postgres is more robust and supposedly ANSII SQL complient but I can't prove or disprove that one. I kinda cut my teeth on postgres so am sticking with that one for the time being. It seems to work well with speakup. The database manager client, psql is a basic command line thing and the output can scroll off the screen so can be okward at times but the output can be piped into less for easier viewing. There's a bit of a learning for SQL databases in general but it is the industry standard and well worth your time to learn SQL as a language and then some simple programming to use that SQL in user friendly programs. I should point out that these standard SQL engines do not provide an interface like MS access to navigate up and down through your data like in a spreadsheet though a client program could be written to do just that, I'm sure. Don't know if MySQL offers such a tool or not. SQL on non Microsoft platforms is fully complient; MacroSlop in their usual manner deviate from standards when implementing SQL for Access and for MS SQL Server 7.0 Go for the linux solution! well worth the effort. On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:42:58AM -0400, Charles Crawford wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am thinking of adopting the Linux database management programs for use > at ACB's national office. I will need to learn the language for > programming one and then test it, but hear that the choices are good. Can > anyone recommend what they see as the most user friendly, programmable and > text based sequal server database management program? If so, can you tell > me why and of course you can write off list if yoiu would like. > > -- charlie Crawford. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
