From: "Roy Brophy" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Database Selection Lines: 13 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 21:00:36 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.80.1.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tcp.net.uk X-Trace: news.tcp.co.uk 989092638 195.80.1.98 (Sat, 05 May 2001 20:57:18 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 20:57:18 BST Organization: Total Connectivity Providers Can anyone recommend a site that may assist with the selection of the right database for a particular application. I want to understand what questions need to be asked. Once we have the answers I then need to understand what is the correct db to satisfy these requirements. This is not a pure "data processing" application but includes gathering data from hardware and storing in the db, retrieving configuration data etc. I can think of the obvious questions to ask like, OS, rate & size of transactions etc but there must be a many other things to take into account. Many thanks, Roy