Here is what I did for a guy:
- Installed MySQL
- Installed DBI for perl
- Installed MySQL.pm
How much should Iask for?????
Thanx in advance,

theuls

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* How long did it take for you do these tasks?
* How much do you charge for Internet services?

These things should be considered in order to identify the appropriate billing amount. There are some really good articles and job information in the following web sites about web and Internet services:

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Also, you should search the Net for information about price ranges and consulting fees.

Regards,

MysQL:
untar the file
make
make install

DBI
untar the file
make
make test
make install

dbd mysql:
untar the file
make
make test
make install

Altogether, 30 seconds of typing, and about 6 minutes of waiting for the make files.

determine your hourly rate, divide by 60, then multiply that by 7 (6m 30s rounded up).



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wow!!! i did not know it only takes afew seconds to install mysql.
i guess if you know what you doing it should not take long.
so i just download the file from mysql.com and upload it then untar the file using telnet?
what's make? how do you do this step?
what's make install? how do you do this step?
no modifications what so ever to the file?
thanks

Read the download and install instructions at http://www.mysql.com.

Regards,

Yes, but please don't leave mysql in it's default state, there is a lot more to setting up mysql then just the install. You need to setup a monitoring script, you need to make sure it restarts on reboot, you need to setup the root password, remove anonymous access, setup a maintenance schedule so that tables are checked/repaired regularly, etc.

Assuming you did all this, it can easily take an hour or two in total to do it right -- barring no problems and a friendly system.

Cheers,

Alex



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make is a Unix utility, usually for compiling linking C programs.

just type make
then make install.

that's it.

You will most likely need root access to do this though, so if you are on a web host, and its not your server, you won't be able to install it.

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