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PostgreSQL Version 6.0 RDBMS database ANSI SQL 92 compliant - Its FREE!!
PostgreSQL Version 6.0 is free database, complete source code is given to you and is a VERY POWERFUL Relational Database System compliant with ANSI SQL92 and SQL89 for very LARGE ENTERPRISE with VAST diverse hardware platforms and Operating systems. Since it is free even very small business can use it (VERY SCALABLE & RELIABLE PostgreSQL). Each and every user is EXTREMELY happy with PostgreSQL RDBMS. Millions of PostgreSQL is installed as data servers, data center servers, Web databases, WWW http database servers and application servers.
PostgreSQL is Commercialised:
PostgreSQL is commercialised & sold by Illustra Inc (Illustra was bought over by Informix Inc.) http://www.illustra.com Title: PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database (Relational Database Management System) Version: 6.0 Date: 20MAY97 Age: PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985 Description: Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase, Informix Authors: Developed by millions/universities on internet for the past 12 YEARS Primary WWW: http://www.postgresql.org/ Secondary WWW: http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/ http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/ http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/ Primary FTP: ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95 ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95 ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL : PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution. TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool more powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. To get TCL/TK http://sunscript.sun.com/ http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/ ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL : http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/ http://www.openlinksw.com UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC independent of driver managers and DLL support, used to embed database connectivity support directly into applications. http://www.openlinksw.com JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz http://www.openlinksw.com Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL: Java Rapid Application Tool for PostgreSQL http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html Java Classes for PostgreSQL : ftp://www.blackdown.org/pub/Java/Java-Postgres95 PostgreSQL 4GL for web database applications: http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL : Email: E.Mergl_at_bawue.de Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL: http://www.oswego.edu/Earp Windows Interactive Query Tool for PostgreSQL (WISQL): Email: keidav_at_accessone.com http://www.ucolick.org/~de/tcl_syb/wisql.html Email: de_at_ucolick.org Identical to Microsoft SQL server WISQL!! Interactive Query Tool - ISQL (Character command line terminals): Included in the distribution, called PSQL. Very similar to Sybase ISQL, Oracle SQLplus. WWW Web interface for PostgresSQL: http://www.cis-computer.com/dbengine/ Apache Webserver Module for PostgreSQL: http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript/ PHP/FI Server-side html-embedded scripting language for PostgreSQL (WWW Interface Tool): http://www.vex.net/php
"C" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq'. Similar to Oracle OCI, Sybase DB-lib, Informix CLI libraries.
"C++" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq++'. PostgreSQL ESQL/C (Embedded C Pre-compiler) like Oracle Pro*C, Informix ESQL/C: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/linus Email : linus_at_epact.se Tested Platforms: Linux, MkLinux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, Irix, NEXTSTEP, SCO, Unixware, OS/2, NT, Windows 95 etc All flavors of unix. Use gcc, gmake for Win NT/95 to compile on win32, GNU gcc is available for win32. Mailing Lists: Email to: questions-request_at_postgreSQL.org OR email to questions_at_postgreSQL.org OR email to hackers-request_at_postgreSQL.org with following lines in the body (not the subject line) subscribe end Documentations: Included in the distribution is the 'User Guide' for PostgreSQL, 'Implementation Guide' detailing database internals of PostgreSQL, online manuals, online manuals in HTML formats. Also manuals in Postscript format for printing hard copies. Reference docs: Useful reference textbooks : "Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide" - by Jim Melton and Alan R.Simpson Morgan Kaufman Publisher is one of best SQL books. Many other titles on SQL are available!!
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P.S: Internet is a democracy --> It is for the people, to the people
and by the people. You get very reliable info only on internet. Received on Tue May 27 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
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