Cheers for the advice, going to install Postgres on Linux and play with Access to learn SQL.

Matt
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From: home@alexhudson.com
To: gllug@linux.co.uk
Sent: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:36:40 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Databases - NOT Linux specific

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:21:04AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > If you really have no experience with databases then before you learn
> > SQL you need to learn basic concepts about relational databases:
> > one-to-many relationships, many-to-many relationships, primary keys,
> > indexes, normalisation etc.  Hmmm.  I started with dBase but I wouldn't
> > recommend it.
> 
> I hope you're mentioning many-to-many relations in the 'pitfalls' category
> :) I also don't recommend dBase - nor Staroffice DB (Adabas is it?) - MySQL
> is good from the point that there are many tools which support it
> (phpMyAdmin I think is pretty good), Postgres is better but fewer tools in
> my experience.
> 
> > build simple databases - and then work up.  For all it's eccentricites
> > under the bonnet, MS Access is actually very good as a learning tool.
> 
> Yep. Only when as a front-end to a real database though :)_
> 
> > I only had a brief look at StarBase - anybody else?
> 
> Not used it in any depth myself, never heard anything good about it though.
> 
> > I'd recommend Postgresql over mySQL as preparation for Oracle
> 
> Me too. Or Sybase.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
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