Re: Newbie with lots of questions

On 5/17/06, Martin Ellis <martin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 14:39, Philip Stephens wrote:
> Basically you're going to have to migrate your db to mysql or
> postgresql.

I'm not sure that's the case at all.  There are plenty of database
applications that will let you store the database in a single file as
in Access.

These include Kexi, Knoda, OpenOffice.org Base, and I'm sure the Gnome
community have an offering too.  It'd be much more prudent to check
that none of these satisfy the requirements first.

Encouraging people to learn how to set up, secure, and arrange a
decent backup arrangement for a database server isn't a good way to
introduce people to databases on Linux!

Point well taken.  I am a newbie to db's and I am glad you were here to re-direct and educate.  What if I had said nothing?  I certainly would not have found out about kexi or knoda anytime soon. Thanks.

Martin

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