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Author(s) : Paul DuBois
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
Date : 2008
Pages : 1326
Format : PDF
ISBN : 0672329387
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A relational database management system (RDBMS) is an essential tool in many environments,
from traditional uses in business, research, and educational contexts, to applications
such as powering search engines on the Internet. However, despite the importance
of a good database system for managing and accessing information resources, many organizations
have found them to be out of reach of their financial resources. Historically,
database systems have been an expensive proposition, with vendors charging healthy fees
both for software and for support.Also, because database engines often had substantial
hardware requirements to run with any reasonable performance, the cost was even
greater.
The situation is different now, on both the hardware and software sides of the picture.
Small desktop systems and servers are inexpensive but powerful, and there is a thriving
movement devoted to writing high-performance operating systems for them.These operating
systems are available free over the Internet or at the cost of an inexpensive CD.They
include several BSD Unix derivatives (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) as well as various
distributions of Linux (Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE, to name a few).
About the Author
Paul DuBois is a writer, database administrator, and leader in the open source and
MySQL communities. He has contributed to the online documentation for MySQL and
is the author of MySQL and Perl for the Web (New Riders), MySQL Cookbook, Using csh
and tcsh, and Software Portability with imake (O’Reilly). He is currently a technical writer
with the MySQL documentation team at Sun Microsystems.
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