Re: Beginner Questions Please: Which To Go With ?

From: David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Beginner Questions Please: Which To Go With ?
Date: 2004-03-27 03:17:08
Message-ID: 4064F234.7070708@zara.6.isreserved.com
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Access is not a real SQL database, but it has some SQL interface
> glued onto it.

What do you mean by "real SQL database"? Would you call MySQL a real SQL
database? I think Access is as real as MySQL in terms of being a SQL
database; it even has things like subselect long before MySQL does.

SQL _is_ an interface, after all...

--
dave

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