Re: [LUG] Unix file system folder limits

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Steve Marvell wrote:

> > I'm not the world's biggest fan of databases, and have on a couple
> > of occasions had long discuissions about why I belive they're
> > overkill in certain applications, but this is screaming out for a
> > database and some php.
> 
> No it's not!
> 
> If these files are data files, then there is no reason to put them
> into realtional database, since they are clearly a closed relation.
> 
> If these files are HTML files, or HTML snippets which follow some
> regular format, then they should be data files and translated to HTML
> in some way, using a template.
> 
> If you're going to put them into anything, put them into a Berkeley DB
> file. PHP and Perl will access this just as easy. 
> 
> No need for a wolloping great RDB here.
> 
> Steve

Let me just add "where values of database do not necessarily equal a 
rdbms" to the bottom of my statement :)

Alex.


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