Re: Text file or database

2003-02-20 Thread R. Joseph Newton
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

Re: Text file or database

2003-02-20 Thread John Baker
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

Re: Text file or database

2003-02-20 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
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

Re: Text file or database

2003-02-20 Thread John Baker
's of files containing 100's of lines of code apiece. I'm glad you brought this up. I'd like to hear others' opinions. Just my .02 cents. jab On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Colin Johnstone wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:24:07 +1100 > From: Colin Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Text file or database

2003-02-20 Thread Paul
--- 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

Text file or database

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Johnstone
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 a double optin registration process