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From: Carole Goble <carole@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: more survey summary
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Paul


>> I tried using Postgres (on Sun sparcs) in a lab with 15 students each with
>> their own database (which isn't quite what you want).

>if you want to give people a taste of database use, why not use a real
>SQL engine.  or, if you can't afford it, ingres89 (which doesn't do any
>neat stuff but is smaller and more reliable and also runs on sparcs).


Tricky if you want to teach them about active databases and extensible
systems and other exciting things 'cos they all know SQL anyway. I interpret
your message to mean that I should strike any teaching/use of Postgres
on courses to potential db researchers from my graduate course, giving the
reason as `they should all use Oracle and triggers'. 

Carole