Re: [TCLUG:15201] Linux DBMS

[George Swan <g-swan@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

At 02:11 PM 3/27/00 -0600, you wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:45:45AM -0800, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
><rant>
>M$ Access is, IMHO, a piece of $*@#!  You can have absolutely NO concurrent
>users on an Access database.  The minute you do, you spell your death.
>It's slow, inconvenient, and a bastardization of the SQL standard.  It can
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When I began with SQL I liked it... but once I was ready to move on,
they wouldn't give me anything better....  and I "don't have the money
to pay for a divorce" myself so I'm stuck in this marriage.
It's a Catch 22... yuck!
  And the longer this goes on, the longer my brain
  relies on non-ANSI compliant creations.
          <hate-rage>  Yuck! Blech! Ugh!

php/mysql web pages with phpMyAdmin is beautiful by comparison.

gs

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