[ale] "easy to use" database

[Warren Myers]

I guess I don't understand what you are trying to do very well. Are
you trying to build a personal checkbook manager that runs through a
web interface? PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite should all do the trick.

I'm, most familiar with pgsql and mysql interfacing to PHP to build
the front-end.

WMM


On 19 Jan 2005 12:56:11 -0500, Christopher Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> SQLite
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:48, Preston Boyington wrote:
> > disclaimer: I have virutally no real experience with setting up and
> > admining a database.
> >
> > Here's what I "think" I need:
> >
> > 1) A relatively easy to use database with (if possible) a web interface
> > so I can setup personal accounts.
> >
> > 2) I want it to ledger monthly payments
> >
> > 3) I would like it to have some type of search/report feature so I can
> > pull specific items of information from the personal accounts. (ie. all
> > birthdays in March, last payments made, if an account is overdue, etc)
> >
> > 4) A "notes" feature so I can input information that doesn't neatly fit
> > into my designated fields.
> >
> > 5) Some type of budgeting features so I can make projections, log
> > monthly expenditures, deposits, etc.
> >
> > 6) Expandable so I can add the stuff I forget during the initial layout
> > (adding fields, etc)
> >
> > I have heard that Postgres would be a way to go, but I don't know enough
> > about it to make a decision yet.
> >
> > any help would be appreciated.
> > Preston
> >
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