[FM Discuss] Databases

[John Curwood]

Hi Lachlan,

I can set up the book for you, are we happy the title Databases, or do
we need something a bit more descriptive such as SQL Databases?

Let me know and I will set up the book.

Cheers,

John

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 14:31 +1000, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> 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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