[FM Discuss] Databases

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 14:30, John Curwood
<marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
> I've had a situation setting up civicrm when I could have really used
> just such a manual.

Ok, sounds like people would appreciate it then.

I took a look at the site this morning, but couldn't work out how to
start a new book, and I wasn't sure if I had the perms anyway.

Could I ask someone to please start a book called "Databases" or something?

cheers
L.



>
> 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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