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From: calvin@xmission.com (calvin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Looking for: SQL - Web Database for FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:58:57 GMT
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On 25 May 1997 17:54:39 GMT, cbbrowne@news.brownes.org (Christopher B.
Browne) wrote:

>On Fri, 23 May 1997 18:10:20 -0800, Hans Cathcart <hans@itavera.com> posted:
>>I'm looking for an SQL database that will run on FreeBSD and can serve
>>dynamic web pages.
>
>>It can be Free/Share/Commercial ware, it just needs to be easy to use
>>and configure on my FreeBSD server.
>
>I've got a variety of freely available SQL databases listed at
><http://www.conline.com/~cbbrowne/rdbms.html>.
>
>The list is relatively oriented towards Linux, but should still be
>relevant for FreeBSD as:
>a) A number of the freely available RDBMSes also run on FreeBSD, and
>b) Isn't there a fairly good Linux "emulator" for FreeBSD allowing the
>running of many Linux binaries?

We (my partners and I) have been using mSQL in the past and have
ported to MySQL because it provides more functionality.  It's less
complex than Oracle and others, but it does run on linux or FreeBSD.  

We are using it to support a web-based benefits enrollment sytem
<www.webenroll.com> of some 100 files with upto millions of records.
We are in the middle of porting all our code to the MySQL now and our
port has actually made us more efficient becasue of MySQL's better
implementation of SQL-92.

It does support Blobs for some limeted Object architectures.  

check it out at <http://www.tcx.se/>

-calvin

www.seriousdata.com