Re: Publicly accessible database server for interface testing
Date: 1996/04/26
Message-ID: <healy-2604961634300001_at_pudding.med.yale.edu>#1/1
In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960424184843.30552D-100000_at_ucs.orst.edu>, Joachim Zaspel <zaspelj_at_ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
: For a class project I want to write a JAVA application that queries a
: relational database and outputs the result in some form. However, the
: university does not have one database server that students can play
: with. Is there a publicly accessible server somewhere?
:
: I appreciate all comments and suggestions.
:
Why not just set up your own server?
If you have access to a Unix box with a cooperative system admin, there is a fairly good shareware SQL database server (free to academic users) called mSQL that should meet your needs.
Take a look at http://Hughes.com.au/
It's not too difficult to install on most flavors of Unix, but does require root privs to set up.
If you have a _really_ tight budget, you could even use Linux on a PC. I know people who are using it under Linux.
The 'm' of mSQL stands for 'mini' -- it supports a limited subset of SQL commands, but what it does it does well.
Matthew.Healy_at_yale.edu
Center for Medical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine On the WWW, hotlinks are the sincerest form of flattery http://paella.med.yale.edu/~healy/matt_healy.html Received on Fri Apr 26 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST