[FM Discuss] Databases

[Michael McAndrew]

Hey all,

Sounds like a grand idea.  We haven't covered this in the CiviCRM manual, I
guess that is because we thought you could find it somewhere else ... and so
would be great to have another flossmanual to point to as the source of
further information :)

Michael

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 14:48, John Curwood
> <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> No, I think SQL is too much info. I had thought of "Databases: from
> zero to web-app in 15 minutes" or something like that, but essentially
> it's just making poetry of something that makes sense on it's own :)
>
> We probably need one for webservers as well - so we can doa simple set
> up of apache, nginx, lighthttpd, etc etc....although I'll leave that
> for the moment.
>
> cheers
> L.
>
>
> >
> > 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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