What IS databasing?

[ianrules]

I'm just wanna know if its anything that would be good for my site

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[Jason]

Ian,

"Databasing" is the process of storing, managing, and manipulating large amounts of information, or data. More commonly, it refers to popular software such as MS Access, Oracle, SQL, etc. This is only needed by sites that have ;arge "databases" with client info, member info, etc. and is not needed for basic website building.

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[ianrules]

you mean like sites that you need a ling name and password... like this one?

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[brobe]

You are correct in assumming that this forum's data is stored in a database. Member information as well as the topics, forums, replies, and other information is kept in this database.

There are two common types of databases.

1) (Text File) Databases which stores data in text files in a structured manner for easy retrieval.

2) (Software Based) Databases are usually more efficient and therefore used on bigger applications / sites such as Yahoo, Altavista, etc... This type allows much faster retrieval of data. (Oracle, MSAccess, MySQL, Progress RDBMS)

Hope this clarifies a few things...



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[ianrules]

is there anywhere i can learn more about this(like the actual language) 'cause im problably gonna need this in the future.

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[Jason]

There are many sources, however it differs greatly from software to software, and databasing also often requires the knowledge and implementation of other programming languages in order to learn effectively. I would reccomend that you start with some simple perl exercises before you move on to studying databasing. Take a look at http://www.perlaccess.com It is a good first step into the world of CGI.

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[ianrules]

Thanks as far as perl is concerned i have purchased a book on it.
PERL AND CGI FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB
but i want to know where i can find out more about databasing i use microsoft access i know how to use the prgram but i dont know how to set it up with my site.

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[Jason]

Databasing and programming go hand in hand. In fact, as far as I know, you can't put an MS Access database online without using ASP (active server page). However you can export the database to a text file, delimit it by the character |, and create a perl script to manipluate the data, so you see, knowing languages like perl play a very important role in databasing.

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[Henrik]

Not true, there are perl-modules for MS Access, PHP and ColdFusion has support for it as well.
However, I would recommend you to use MySQL instead, it is much faster than MS Access and is also based on STANDARD SQL and it's free and available on most platforms.

[ianrules]

If i knew the site i would go get it dont you think? im getting frustrated here where can is there a tutorial on databasing i know what it DOES i just dont know how to use it.

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[Henrik]

Well, if you want to learn MySQL you can find a nice tutor for beginners here: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Intro/
there are other good tutorials at that site as well.
When you know the basics, the best thing would be to read the MySQL documentation. It includes all the goodies. You can find it here: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/commented/

MySQL is mostly standard SQL so you wont have much problems if you want to learn another SQL based database.

[This message has been edited by Henrik (edited 10-13-2000).]