I'm Pretty New To The Whole Programming Thing. I Would Like To Know Which Language Would Be Good For The Programming Of A Database. I Would Also Like To Use The Same Language To Right The Front-End Of The Program That Is Accessing The Database. Has Anyone Got Any Thoughts. Any Help Is Welcome. Thanx.
I'm assuming you mean that you are looking for the best programming language for interacting with a database, in which case my vote goes to PHP.
I Was Learning Cobol In College, But There Has To Be A More Up-To-Date And Impressive Language To Write With. Would PHP Cover That Criteria? Plus How Easy Is It To Learn?
PHP is fairly simple, and has support for most databases. I'd recommend MySQL if you haven't chosen your DB yet
you use sql for your database specifically mysql php to interface mysql using sql php for your frontend as well.. this is a very typical setup php is easy to learn giving the great weath of information at their documentation site php.org. I'd ball park and say 40% of web sites out there use php, again ball park
It depended on your OS (Windows/Linux family) and Web or Windows application programing . I think PHP and mysql is better choice , for database driven web application programming and C# & Sqlserver is better choice for Windows application programing .
If you know C# and T-SQL you may as well develop sites in .Net as well. At run time there will be little difference for a small site between PHP and .Net but once you start to get into server farm territory your .Net's scalability will be easier/ better
PHP and MySQL has been an evergrowing combination and would get my vote easily. The two platforms are widely supported and are open source. Sun just bought out MySQL...so who knows what they may bring to the table in the future.
me too I vote for PHP and MySQL .. you can find a lot of tutorial about this language combination. It's pretty easy too to understand and write them. You can always refer www.php.net if you stucked at specific php/mysql function
php is great to start with, very easy to use functions to access many different types of databases, as very easy to use the output of forms via array variables $_GET etc
PHP is very good and also very simple. The only disadvantage is that it needs a server to run. The good thing is that there is easyPHP or similar software that installs everything that you need: PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin etc.
Any PHP coder will say php, but my vote is for Perl. Perl is no as common as php is but is extremly light and cna do everything. Yes Perl does not have about 4500 built in functions, and some will never use .
but it's a common sense to use a language that has a lot of available functions that we can use instead of trying to reinvent the wheels with other language.