databases are grea for the shear amount of functionality that is well defined commonly for manipulation.
both suffer from disk access.... Caching is recommended as is a flush cache mechanism for when needed.... Efficiency is mostly based on design.... By default the text file will have a faster response time where it just involves disk... A database has disk plus database overhead... A small factor.... Either will though work... Databases offer greater manageability and centralized on the fly manipulation.. -paris Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com (p) 1-212-655-4477 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -----Original Message----- From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Skinned Site / Content Sources I am building a site which needs to be skinnable. I am trying to determine the best way to store and include the sites textual content. The textual content I am referring to would be all over the site. My question is wether it is more efficient to store the various textual content in text files which are dynamically included or to store it in a DB and have it read in when needed. What do YOU thinK? Brook ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
