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| (Back to ProgrammingBookmarks) Relational databases aren't cool, but they are hugely important to businesses around the world. I've been involved with databases for quite a while, in some cases actively pushing their limits. | ||||||||
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| > > | Relational database can be "normalized" to make them more consistent and harder to break: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization | |||||||
| Lately, the most interesting database I've used is Postgresql. Dumb name, great product. http://www.postgresql.org/ Oracle is big and ugly, but so are Mack trucks. Both are useful. Oracle runs on Linux, there are some products to help with this process at: http://www.orasoft.org/ | ||||||||