FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Using the MySQL and PostgreSQL Open-Source Databases

Now that you have a grounding in how SQL is used in all databases that support it (which is to say, almost all of them), you can turn your attention to the common open-source databases typically used under FreeBSD. These are MySQL and PostgreSQL.

In recent years, the field of open-source database software packages has narrowed to include fewer, but more useful, solutions. It used to be the case that the administrator had to choose between dozens of different solutions, all of which had some basic functionality but seemed to be missing something crucial—and each one was deficient in something different. But recently the development efforts on MySQL and PostgreSQL have turned them both into packages ...