[FM Discuss] Databases

[John Curwood]

Alright, I've added the databases manual at:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Databases

it is also under the "Doing things with free software" section of the
write page.

Cheers,

John

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 14:51 +1000, Lachlan Musicman 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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