[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement; DB Admin; MySQL; PostgreSQL

[Eric Eisenhart]

WHAT:    NBLUG General Meeting
TOPIC:   Database Administration with MySQL and PostgreSQL
SPEAKER: Augie Schwer
WHERE:   O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol
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         http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html
WHEN:    Tuesday, August 13th, 2002 @ 7:30PM

This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place.

    Augie will be covering both PostgreSQL Database Administration and MySQL
    Database Administration.  So if you've just been dying to set up a
    database or you have one of these databases and aren't quite sure how to
    configure it or add users or just don't quite know what to do with it,
    come to the meeting with your brains ready.  We're hoping some of you
    will be coming with questions ready so that Augie can be properly
    grilled.

    MySQL and PostgreSQL are the two leading open source SQL Relational
    DataBase Management Systems (RDBMS); both run on Linux as well as a
    variety of other platforms, mostly *nix.  They are used to power many
    websites, including slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, SourceForge.net,
    quickfacts.census.gov, finance.yahoo.com, mail-abuse.org, and more
    projects than you can shake a stick at.  MySQL is a lightweight database
    engine that does most of what you want; PostgreSQL is a bit heftier but
    also provides all of what's in the ANSI SQL92 standard.  Both can be
    used from C, C++, Perl, PHP, Java, ODBC and Python.

    Augie is a regularly attending member of NBLUG who is currently majoring
    in Computer Science at Sonoma State University and working for the
    Sonoma County Water Agency, primarily doing web and database
    development.

OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS:

September 10th Larry Rosen will talk about Open Source and law

September 21st we're having an InstallFest at SSU; details following
shortly.

October 8th, Mark Linford will talk about PHP.
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Eric Eisenhart
NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore for Life
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org/
eric at nblug.org