AW: AW: filling a db on CD, what happens?

[Luis]

That'd be Structured Query Language, don't be that kind to it...

Cheers,

Luis.


Andre Garzia wrote:
> Tiemo,
> 
> I've been using both RDBMS and flat files. A quick opinion is that
> with SQL you don't need to reinvent the wheel and this is specially
> good when you're going to do cross references and searching. SQL
> stands for Simple Query Language, it's really easy to make queries
> with SQL.
> 
> With flat files, you need to roll your own search routines and this
> can be a huge bottleneck on your code. If you go brute force looking
> every single record in your thousand+ database, you're sure that will
> take a while. If you decide to optimize your searches and build your
> own indexing and searching, then you'll spend a lot of time in there.
> 
> So, for my projects, I settle like this: if there's heavy searching go
> with SQL, if it's just data storage and retrieval, then stack files
> will do.
> 
> I must say, I am in love with stack files, they are so flexible!
> 
> Cheers
> andre
> 
> On 2/6/08, Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de> wrote:
>> Hi Derek,
>>
>>> Like I said though, it depends entire upon the type of database you are
>>> working with.  I don't use SQL as I find it to be rather bulky.  I use
>>> Flat Files, and I write all of my own database handlers, so my coding is
>>> not dependent on SQL or some other type of database and it's limitations.
>> Interesting to read, did you ever compared the performance on "big" datas?
>> Up to now I havn't found a performing way how to loop through 20.000 records
>> in a flat file for generic selection with a search term compared with a
>> select - where. Looping through 20.000 records and searching for a sting
>> with lineoffset() to select a list of datas wasn't fast enough for me.
>> Perhaps you found a better trick?
>>
>> Tiemo
>>
>>
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