Re: Relational Databases

Paul,
I see you've gotten lots of good but conflicting info regarding how to get 
into web database development work.

I'm a rookie just starting to climb out of the learning curve hole and 
here's what I've found after spending untold hours trying to figure out how 
to get started:
1)If you have a Win 9x machine, start with PWS and Access to learn the 
basics on your local machine.
2)Go to webmonkey and go through their Access/ASP tutorial.
3)Then d/l Coldfusion Express and run through their tutorials and the one 
at webmonkey.
4)Figure out where to go from there.

This is the point I'm at right now and I've developed enough of an 
understanding to set up a rudimentary RDBMS intranet site for my 
engineering department (still Win98 based). Now I feel confident enough to 
take on setting up mySQL and PHP on my Linux machine and do some 
investigation on that platform. From there I will make my decision whether 
to grow my intranet on our corporate NT system using IIS and SQL or to set 
up a node using a Linux platform. (Not to mention that I have to deal with 
pervasiveSQL that my MRP and accounting systems run on)

You may also want to download and play with a webserver that runs on 98 
called HTTPD Pro. It is much more robust than PWS and it supports most 
everything I want to play with except that I haven't been successful with 
it using ColdFusion though they claim it should work. (I learned a lot 
about configuring webservers from that exercise).

Please no replies about the relative merits of any of the aforementioned 
software. There are so many camps that declare their way is the only way 
that I decided that I needed to try them all and decide for myself fully 
dependent on my own wants and needs. So far the only thing I'm pretty 
convinced of is that I really don't want to use ASP.

Hope this helps,
Dave G.

At 09:33 AM 4/6/00 -0400, Paul Kmecak wrote:
<snip a bunch>
>Second, what would be bare bones necessary to set something up?  How technical
>do I have to be?  Please throw in "nice to haves" but label them as such.
>
>Third, what can/should I expect/need from  my ISP?  Are there ISPs (like
>Geocities.com) that would be more cooperative and cheaper?
>
>Fourth, can I simulate the server experience on my own machine with 
>Personal Web
>Server?  What can I expect PWS to do and not do?
>
>Finally, please recommend useful texts for the woefully beginning ("SAMS Teach
>Yourself Server Side Processing In 24 Hours"?).  Remember, I am not as
>experienced or knowledgeable as you are now, but plan to be.  Thanks.
>
>Paul Kmecak

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