True, I should have said Firebird (based on Interbase 6.0).
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you can get oracle/linux to download for free. there's some things to read
about install (setting language, glibc patch...)
postgresql is quite close to oracle (same features i mean) and you could
learn a lot with it, even on a small-sized machine, standard rpms exist.
it's a very complete produc
Hi Brenden,
> Interbase (aka: Firebird) is open source and free. It has a very small
> footprint, easy to administer, fast and has some pretty nice advanced
> features (replication, shadowing)
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> http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
Well, not exactly. Firebird is a fork on the Interbase code whi
Hi Paul,
> I need to become more familiar with databases for a project at work. The
> clients we work with frequently use Oracle or Informix.
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> Is there any free versions of databases that are similiar in concept to
> the above mentioned Oracle/Informix? Are the open source versions (i.e.
> Po
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> Informix also has a free Linux port like Oracles.
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Informix also has a free Linux port like Oracles.
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> I need to become mor
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Paul Greene wrote:
>I need to become more familiar with databases for a project at work. The
>clients we work with frequently use Oracle or Informix.
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>So, in my spare time (ha ha ha), I would like to play around with creating
>s
Oracle has a license where you can download it and install it for free.
Just check the license before you download it.
Here is a procedure I wrote for installing Oracle on Red Hat Linux:
http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.html
Werner
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Paul Greene wrote:
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If you just want to get familiar with Oracle, you can download Oracle
for Linux free from the Oracle Web site under a developer's license.
You can play around with it, and develop with it. But then if you want
to sell software that you developed using Oracle under this free
license, you have to
