Re: How to write a toy database?

Valter Ferraz Sanches wrote:
>
> I'm writing a dummy application that needs a database. I don't want to
> tie it to a SQL server, so I would like to build a "toy" dummy
> database, just for my purporses.
>
> I would like to know how to write the files to be accessed and which
> is the best algorithm to do the data mining. I used to use an ASCII
> text file with fields separated by ":". The queries were made opening
> and reopening the data file and matching its contents against the
> query. It's stupid, in my opinion, but I have a big lack of knowledge
> in databases, so it was the bast solution for that moment.
>
> Could someone points me a book, a web page or some source code
> (Python, C/C++, Perl, Tcl or even VB and Delphi) to help me understand
> how stuff works?
>
> I'll be happy if someone could send a "cc" to my mail.
>
> TIA! Sorry about my broken English...
>
> Valter <vfs_at_mail.com>

Since you are willing to use Python why not use gadfly? Gadfly is a reasonable subset of ANSI92 written in Python. Using gadfly will be a lot faster and easier than developing a toy database. Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 06:28:15 CET