On 5 avr, 17:50, Jetus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a need for a database program. I downloaded the db2 from ibm, > and reviewed some of the documentation. > > My question is, what is the easiest program for me to try to learn. I > will be creating a database of about 25,000 records, it will be > relational. I am a beginner Python programmer, and need a database > solution that is easy to grasp. I played with sql, > and found that very difficult, if not overly cumbersome.
The point is that so far, "relational database" really means "SQL database". And believe me, trying to get away with a non-SQL database only to avoid learning SQL is probably the worst possible move for both your program and yourself. > A database that could work with Django would be very interesting to > look at as well.. The databases that the ORM part of Django can connect to are all SQL databases. > Any suggestions out there? I can only second / third etc what everyone already told you : learn SQL. And not only SQL, but also the theory that it builds upon (the 'relational model'), and the good practices wrt/ relational database design. There's no shortage of good quality freely available documentation on these topics, and you'll find help on quite a couple of newsgroups / forums / whatever. I'd strongly recommand you start without Django's ORM first, so you get a chance to learn how it really works undercover. Else you might end up doing things in a very inefficient way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
