Should I use a database or a flat file?

Ruby
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Phillip G.

Well, a Leatherman would be my cultural weapon of choice.</discworld
reference>

Right there with you, in real life. I like the swiss army reference
because those things can be so huge! Leatherman, absolutely. Slim
and useful :slight_smile:

Todd

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On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Phillip G.
[email protected] wrote:

|
| I admit, I tend to like using a sledgehammer to turn a machine screw,
| but in that respect, I’m usually thinking of scalability and data
| integrity.

Why use a sledge hammer, when you can use the surgeon’s knife SQLite?

Well, “sledgehammer” was for humor. A better analogy of my approach
would be this darn overly large swiss army knife that doesn’t always
fit comfortably in my pocket, but I wear it any way just in case.

My only problem with SQLite is lack of foreign key constraints.

cheers,
Todd

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Todd B. wrote:
| On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Phillip G.
|
|> Well, a Leatherman would be my cultural weapon of choice.</discworld
|> reference>
|
| Right there with you, in real life. I like the swiss army reference
| because those things can be so huge! Leatherman, absolutely. Slim
| and useful :slight_smile:

Not the really large one’s, though. :stuck_out_tongue:

  • – Phillip G.

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