Re: [spoon-discuss] Database?

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 10:25  PM, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

> > From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > On 3/17/03 at 3:22 PM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > > Ooh, and bonus points if it's a Microsoft Access database, despite 
> > > the
> > > fact that I have no love for the evil empire, simply because I am a 
> > > pretty familiar with them and making programs for them.
> >
> > A Microsoft Access database wouldn't be much use on the nomic.net 
> > server, since it's Unix-based.  Yes, there may be a Unix-based ODBC 
> > driver for an MSAccess database, but mySQL is already there and quite 
> > functional.
> >
> > Right now, inasmuch as my webpage is functional, it relies on both 
> > Dave's DB and my own.  Theoretically each Minister could have eir own 
> > database and read access to Dave's, or alternately (and I think more 
> > simply) each Minister can have eir own tables in Dave's DB, and 
> > Dave's and others' tables can be made accessible to all.  That can 
> > make for some rather complicated interconnectedness, but cross-table 
> > queries are far less work than querying separate DBs independently.
>
> All that really matters is that I get some way to interface with the 
> database, other than just me typing in numbers on a form on a web 
> page.  I am lacking some basic key element in knowing how to do that.  
> Get me a connection to a database online, and I can go from there.

Well, I'm programming in python, and I've got lots of reference 
material on how to interface between mySQL and python, but barely any 
on how to talk to a Microsoft Access database, so I'd prefer to see 
something in SQL.

As for automating things like the weather and nweekly increases in 
movement points, my program already knows how to do that; given a 
database, it wouldn't be hard to have it update the db every time I hit 
the 'nweek' button.

--
Wonko

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