[ale] OT: needed - small lightweight Windows db

[Christopher Fowler]

sqlite


On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 10:01, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> I have a project to build an interface to a database, needs to run on
> Windows and I would prefer it if Perl could talk to it, because unless
> something changes I expect to build the front-end with PerlTK.
> 
> I don't need anything fancy, would prefer a very lightweight but stable
> (and pref open source!) db like the pre-transactions MySQL...something
> that I can do multiple tables, joins, insert, update, delete, and select,
> and really that's about it.  I expect to have over 10,000 rows of data so
> I would prefer to not go the fixed-length file route, and the max memory
> I've got to play with is 256Mb, mostly less than that.
> 
> All of my experience has been with either big pay products (Oracle,
> Informix) or MySQL.  Access is right out, as is M$'s behemoth db.  I have
> considered MySQL but in my experience it requires some care and feeding,
> and my client is 2 hours away and has no tech people of their own, so I'm
> really hesitant.
> 
> Any guidance would be very appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> jenn
> 
> 
> 
> 
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