DDaattaa AAcccceessss wwiitthh LLiinnuuxx l o i b b g ODBC o GNOME d n a o B Copyright Statement © 2001 Adam Tauno Williams (
[email protected]) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You may obtain a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License from the Free Software Foundation by visiting their Web site or by writing to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Credits The assistance of the following people was imperative to the completion of the presentation: Nick Gorham of the unixODBC project Rodrigo Moya of the GNOME-DB project Vivien Malerba of the gASQL project Giancarlo Capella, author of dbreport I was privileged to have e-mail exchanges with all of the above developers about various issues. They were consistently helpful, overlooking my ignorance, and were excellent representatives of the Open Source ethic of community. Thanks also is in order to the local Linux users' group http://www.kalamazoolinux.org The Topic There are a great variety of relational database systems available for Linux, both Open Source and proprietary. They range in features from the engineless SQLite, to the read-oriented MySQL, to the ACID compliant PostgreSQL, and to incredibly expensive Oracle, Informix, and DB2 Then there are LDAP servers, mail servers, syslog files, NNTP servers, XML files, delimited files, fixed-length files, text files, spreadsheets, etc..