[FM Discuss] Databases

[John Curwood]

I've had a situation setting up civicrm when I could have really used
just such a manual.

Cheers,

John


On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 14:58 +1200, Tim McNamara wrote:
> On 17 May 2010 14:31, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hola
> >
> > I was chatting to Muntek in the Redmine IRC channel this morning about
> > the process/where to start on their new book.
> >
> > As I was looking through their Installation docs, I noticed something
> > that I see everytime I look at these types of systems (wordpress,
> > civicrm, etc) - namely, you need a database. And they are mostly the
> > same - mysql, postgres, sqlite...
> >
> > Would it be outrageous to suggest that we have a (bigger-than-snippet)
> > doc on how to create a database and dump/backup a database in each of
> > those systems?
> 
> Lachlan,
> 
> Interesting idea. I would personally find this very valuable. I wonder
> if it would be appropriate if these chapters were the start of a
> "FLOSS system administration" manual.
> 
> "Linux commands" is user centric, e.g. how to get familiar with Linux.
> When you start to talk about configuring databases and web servers,
> then life changes somewhat. The tasks that you're looking at are sort
> of the next steps.
> 
> 
> Tim.
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