On 11 August 2010 05:28, Alex Hutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, join looks very useful. Actually a while ago I was talking to > some web developer friends and I was talking about writing a CMS that > uses flat files and no databases, but they thought I was crazy... > don't know why I've started to conform to the database crowd :). > Though from looking at sqlite it is not as overly complex as other > systems; the whole database can be loaded into memory and there's no > 'database server'.
Databases are all too often used when flat files would do. Only in certain circumstances do a database's benefits outweigh its overhead. You are right, though - if you do have to use a relational database, SQLite is often the way to go. cls
