On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:58:35PM -0600, Joshua b. Jore wrote: > Ok so for a beginner, why not use MySQL? I've seen plenty o' books in > Borders that cover PHP+MySQL. While that wouldn't be my choice for an > actual application it's certainly a place to start and if the book covers > both explicitly in concert with each other so much the better. That's what I would go with too if I was recommending someone starting with database. And there's a book from Paul Dubois on Perl and MySQL for the Web. > If you have time I'd recommend perl, mod_perl, and PostgreSQL together. > But then I'm not a database geek so all I have to go on is the 'it scales > better' sort of comments. This year I did web databases of ~33,000 > records. Next year it will be ~6,000,000. I did a bunch of applications with mod_perl using both Oracle, Postgresql, and Oracle and I absolutely love it! Hard for beginners though. A personal project of has "drivers" for all three databases: DnsZone (url in sig). -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>