From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 12:20:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E786C16A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d01.mx.aol.com (imo-d01.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF3843F3F for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edinho64@netscape.net) Received: from edinho64@netscape.net by imo-d01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id y.10a.9ea1c16 (16239); Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:20:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netscape.net (pool-151-198-133-135.mad.east.verizon.net [151.198.133.135]) by air-in03.mx.aol.com (v96.8) with ESMTP id MAILININ33-3f6f3f96d87439d; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:20:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3F96D872.4090206@netscape.net> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:20:18 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike@pcmedx.com References: <3F96D018.6050806@netscape.net> <000e01c398cd$d608e290$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 151.198.133.135 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Databases X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:20:39 -0000 mike@pcmedx.com wrote: >>I have a small business and I'm looking to setup a freebsd server. I >>want to connect about 4 clients to this server running windows XP. The >>Freebsd server will keep a database of every customer address, phone >>number, what services that were performed, how much was charged, etc >>etc. This is basically all I need for now and I was wondering which >>opensource database would do this in the easiest possible way. Also >>what software would I use in the client boxes to access this database >>(input and output). >> >> > >My suggestion would be either MySQL or PostgreSQL as both have a ODBC >clients for Windows. >http://www.mysql.com >http://www.postgresql.org > > > I just went through the download page of postgresql but I couldn't see the client for windows, could you send me the link for the client or is it accessible with IE? Best regards