Re: Database Recommendations

From: Koos Pol (NO.koos.JUNK.pol.MAIL_at_raketnet.nl)
Date: 08/19/03 

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:52:20 +0200

On maandag 18 augustus 2003 13:23 Jeff Gaines wrote:

> What is the current thinking on databases in Linux? MySQL seems to
> have rave reviews but Windows seems to be moving towards XML as a
> means of storing data.

XML is an application format while a database will use it's own storage
format. The one has nothing to do with the other.

As a side note, if you want to store small configuration information you
could very well use XML instead of a INI file. But that's really a
different topic than this. 

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KP
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