database and MC

[Leston Drake]

At 04:55 PM 4/17/2002, you wrote:
>Leston Drake wrote:
>
> > At 01:11 PM 4/17/2002, you wrote:
> >> How many megabytes of data and how often will it be
> >> accessed?
> >
> > < 1 Mb of data
> > No control over how often it will be accessed, but based on the specialized
> > nature of the program, demand for it won't be high. So I would say
> > definitely on the "not very often" side of the scale.
>
>For a data set that small why not just use property arrays in a stackfile?

Multiple (simultaneous) users. Keeping the data set valid is the tricky 
part. That's what a DBMS does for you.


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