Chapter 9. Doing the Database Thing
Databases are the meat-and-potatoes—or perhaps the stomach—of any application. They are by no means sexy or glamorous, but they are essential.
Everything and anything that is organized at all uses some form of a database: for example, files and directories in a file system.
Even the most mundane chores—tracking users and their preferences at a Web site, for instance—require the use of a database. (For information on using Linux and the Apache Web server, see Chapter 14.)
When you think about a database on a server operating system like Linux, you should understand that the database is, itself, a client and server affair. For the database to work, the two pieces must be communicating. This leads to some interesting ...
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