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Re: open source PostgreSQL not supportable? (Was: Challenging SQL Query Problem. Can you solve it?)

From: Bruce Lewis <brlspam_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 06 Jan 2006 12:43:08 -0500
Message-ID: <nm9ace945hv.fsf@no-knife.mit.edu>


DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> writes:

> I am a firm believer in open-source software. But open-source, by
> itself, is not sufficient to make something good. Put together whatever
> you wish with any of the open-source RDBMS products on the market and
> I will bet you a tidy reward that given one day and a half-dozen of my
> students ... you will have reports with creative numbers and not a clue
> as to their source.

Please describe what access to the database your students will need. Let's say it's PostgreSQL.

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