Barnes & Nobel in Clearwater US 19 has an amply supply of books on MySQL.
I have no idea of what books they have on PostGRES.
Frank
On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:06, Travis R. Birt wrote:
> Either should work just fine. Currently, Mysql is the more popular in
> most circles. It
> would normally have to do with which you are more familiar with. If you
> are not familiar
> with either, I would look at the library and see which you can more
> easily get a book on.
> I would think to set up a DB correctly and efficiently that you will
> need a book on
> either of the databases. :) Good luck!
>
> wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
> >This is really new territory for me (I am a radio guy) I am going to
> >do some AVL work, I need to capture data into a database, that data
> >will be read into mapping machines in order to track the vehicles.
> >
> >I see that I have available two database products on my RedHat machines,
> >MySQL and PostGRES.
> >
> >What of these or what other db should I use for this sort of activty.
> >At present there will be the following data fields in the db.
> >ID, Lat, Lon, gps_time, time_received, status, additional data
> >
> >gps_time is the time that the record was generated in the vehicle
> >received_time is the time it is entered into the database
> >status is a code that would change if some event (panic button,
> >inertia switch, open door, etc) is activated, and additional data is
> >other data the remote end can send to the database.
> >
> >
> >Chuck Hast
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