Re: [gnome-db] getting started

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 13:48 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 00:02 -0700, Kevin Reeder wrote:
> >> Hi I've just installed gnome-db on my redhat system and am getting
> >> familiar with how it works. Is there a FAQ anywhere? I'm running
> >> Mysql on the localhost, and the problem right now is connecting my
> >> data sources. This seems to require the gnomedb-mgr prog but I
> >> don't find it on my machine.
> >>
> > this is very old, don't use gnome-db, use mergeant (www.gnome-db.org)
> > instead, or glom (www.glom.org)
> 
> Glom is not useful for creating data connections/sources. It uses only
> PostgresSQL and it stores the connection information separately from the
> regular libgda data connections.
> 
what's the reason for only accessing PostgreSQL?

As for creating data sources, use the gnome-database-properties control-
center applet (sorry, forgot to say that in my previous post)
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>