Colin Johnstone wrote:
> Gidday all,
>
> A colleague and I were having a discussion re pros and cons of use of
> textfile to store data over a database. When would you use a database in
> preference to storing users in a textfile?
>
> I have written a mailing list application in Perl that that has
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:08:51 -0500
> From: Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: John Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Colin Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Text f
John Baker wrote:
A work-mate of mine and were having the same discussion recently.
I'm not a big fan of dbases, but maybe that's because I don't have
to be...yet.
A couple things that could factor when considering dbases:
1. speed
2. additional middleware technology
Is the speed of accessing d
A work-mate of mine and were having the same discussion recently.
I'm not a big fan of dbases, but maybe that's because I don't have
to be...yet.
A couple things that could factor when considering dbases:
1. speed
2. additional middleware technology
Is the speed of accessing dbase info more eff
--- Colin Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gidday all,
Hiya. :)
> A colleague and I were having a discussion re pros and cons of use of
> textfile to store data over a database. When would you use a database
> in preference to storing users in a textfile?
I would probably always do so, be
