XSL & Stuff

[Steve Lane]

matthew_heusser at mcgraw-hill.com wrote:
> >in contrast to storing data in relations (tables) in a DBMS?
> 
> Too much disk space.
> And too expensive.  (Or hard to maintain, if you're an open-sourcer)
> And takes too many clock cycles.
> 
> If I _had_ to have the functionality of a database with >10,000,000 records
> and I _needed_ to beat the performance of MS Access, I'd probably look
> for a Indexed Squential Access Method (ISAM) database product, like the
> old informix.

i use MySQL for this purpose.  i'm not aware of any
diskspace / too expensive / hard to maintain issues
with it.  <shrug>
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Steve Lane <sml at zfx.com>