[thelist] creating a small site

Hassan Schroeder hassan.schroeder at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 20:07:18 CST 2007


> as a confirmed database guy, if I have access to a db, I use it.

+1 :-)

> sometimes a database *is* overkill. I still occasionally use a text file
> (or even a text string!) to store and read trivial data, even when a db
> is available.

Well, it's all going to be platform dependent, of course, but usually
a DB operation is less overhead than a file access, particularly if
you're using connection pooling.

As always, YMMV :-)
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