From owner-freebsd-database Sun Dec 26 12: 1:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from hub.org (hub.org [216.126.84.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885DB14BF2 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA52457; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:01:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:01:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Berend de Boer Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What database i can use? In-Reply-To: <001d01bf4e3a$f89a3a70$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Berend de Boer wrote: > > What is recommended: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or > > another? > > Oracle costs money, hard to setup, but most features. > > MySQL isn't a real RDBMS, so not an option. > > Leaves PostgreSQL. Stable and reasonably fast. Doesn't support full ANSI92 > SQL (no JOIN statement for example). But has many other features. JOIN statement? I take it that this is different then: SELECT a.field1, b.field2 from table1 a, table2 b where a.key = b.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message