There are available any free instance database over Internet?
I mean, there are any Oracle/MySQL/SQLserver database instance (read only is enough) in which I can connect for free (may be registering, of course)?
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Here are a list of web hosting providers that provode mysql databases for free:
John Boker
2009-01-26 22:39:32
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Not that I know of, and it'd be extremely unlikely to find one. For one thing there's no tangible benefit, and for another it'd be wide open to abusive users who could easily consume nasty amounts of CPU time and disk space.
There are some alternatives;
1) Both MySQL and SQL Server Compact Edition are free to download and trivial to install. You can simply use localhost/127.0.0.1 as the address to connect to.
2) You could run a copy of linux (or Windows if you have a license) as a Virtual Machine with the SQL database installed on that. This is an extremely common technique for people doing web development and who wish to maintain a "clean" environment.
3) There are a number of extremely cheap hosting options that also provide MySQL. I am very happy with and would highly recommend DreamHost.
Andrew Grant
2009-01-26 22:49:39
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There is Amazon's SimpleDB. It's a database running on amazon's servers, exposed as a web service.
It's free up to a certain amount of data/CPU usage/data transfer.
M4N
2009-02-09 22:56:57