>> > >But, there are so many things that it does not do, and so many things that it does in peculiar ways, that it is not, IMO, worth wasting the time when the user will eventually move over to PostgreSQL anyway. Besides, one does not have to load PostgreSQL up (i.e., they can keep it 'light' by loading 'training' data) during the learning phase. MySQL is sort of like 'training wheels' on a bicycle. That don't allow the exercise of the proper eye-ear-muscle coordination, and eventually they have to be taken off to allow realy learning to begin. :)
Mind if I ask what Front end you use with Postgresql, to make databases? What other tools would you reccommend that I check out. any querry tools. the star off tool, is that the best one.? I am in that mode, taking myself of the trainging wheels, Still love Mysql, for the Leaps it took me from the flat file, technology, I started with. But you are right, that its not the power that competes with Oracle or MsSql, that I truly need.
Currenly I use a product called MysqlFront, for managing the Mysql databases. its very similar to VFP's modi stru, where you can change field definations, in a gui mode. add index;s whatever. Sort of slick. Is there something in Linux or Windoz which allows someone to work graphically with the database.? not Web Based, but actually GUI? What I really like about Mysql Front, was its two screen aproach, where when I a make a change, or construct a querry, ilt shows on the lower part of of the screen the sql statment it just executed. Very easy to cut and past that into code. A real learning tool.
Any thoughts ?
Bob Lee
In the beginning, there was a command prompt, and all was well.
