Re: very basic database questions

Lets talk more about the admin tools that the hosting environment offers.
It is sometimes eaiser to explain with the tool at hand.
MS Access is ok to use for protyping your tables, however there are other
ways to accomplish your goals.

Are you comfortable with PHP?  If you can get PHP4 environment do so.


----- Original Message -----
From: "mamaduckie" <mamaduckie(at)home.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 8:05 AM
Subject: very basic database questions


> Please help.  I'm drowning in a sea of unknowns.
>
> I'd like to convert part of my site to database (away from static
> html).  My server supports PHP3 and 4 and MySQL.  These seem like
challenge
> enough and I don't know if I'm up to it because I can't even seem to
figure
> out how to build the tables.
>
> MS Access has been mentioned within my hearing a few times -- but I don't
> have the program nor the money to buy it.  Is there another, preferably
> free, program to help me build my tables.  Do I need a program at all?
Can
> I build them by hand?
>
> Obviously I'm very ignorant on the subject.  I've read part of the SQL for
> Dummies book.  The parts that I did understand make it all seem very
> logical.  I think I have a bit of a handle on how to structure the tables
> and what information I need in which tables.  But how to build them?  Am I
> looking at this wrong?  Can it possibly be so difficult?
>
> Grateful for any advice or good tutorials or other sources of information.
>
> ~E
>

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