June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
21h 28m
English
A major goal of this chapter is to give readers the means to actually try some hands-on relational database programming. That's an ambitious goal, because relational databases are industrial-strength and industrial-sized pieces of software. Up until a few years ago, the only choice in a database management system was which of the commercial vendors would you buy from. More recently, the explosion of interest in open source software has led to a much larger number of choices, some of which require no financial outlay. Table 24-1 and Table 24-2 show some popular commercial and non-commercial products and their characteristics.
Table 24-1. Some commercial databases
Table 24-2. Some non-commercial ...
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