DBMS Implementation for SQL?

[Jon Knight]

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Margaret Schaus wrote:
> Does anyone know of low-cost (i.e. less than $300) or shareware DBMS for
> SQL?  We are interested in building a database in SQL but can't afford the
> costs of Microsoft SQL Server and comparable packages.  Suggestions and
> advice are most welcome.

Check out msql, mysql and/or postgres at an archive near you (the Sunsites
have them for example).  These are freely available low cost RDBMSes that
support a fair chunk of SQL.  I've used both msql and postgres and I tend
to veer towards the latter.

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

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