[KLUG Members] easy DB

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > 1. SQL is 100% portable, it is almost the same everywhere.  With these
> > GUIs you have to learn a new GUI wherever you go.
> Learning a new GUI is simple if you know what is going on in the 
> background.  I have to agree, though, that SQL is portable.   I have 
> run into problems here and there at times with DB's that don't support 
> this and that function . . . but nothing I could not figure out.

Going down to a bargain books and investing in a SQL reference that is RDBMS
NEUTRAL is a wise investment.  "SQL Instant Reference" by Martin Gruber",
published by Sybex, is my preferred text.  I know in GR you can get it for
something like $4.  I don't think it mentions an RDBMS product by name after
page 2 (literally).