[thelist] PHP/MSQL question millions or thousands
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Wed Feb 6 08:12:00 CST 2008
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r937
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:04 AM
>
> > For those with experience, which is going to be more efficient --
> > creating a separate entry for each ingredient (millions of little
> > chunks of information) or putting all of the ingredients into one
> > entry and searching within that entry (thousands of chunks of
> > information that need to be search in)?
>
> the former
I concur. Not only will it be more efficient, it'll open up a whole world
of possibilities in regards to formatting, functionality, and user
interfaces. You'll just be much happier with this decision in the long run.
:-)
Joshua
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