But the argument was never about effiency, it was about speed. SQL makes a lot more sense if you have a lot of users. The maintence would be easier as well.
Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Evren Yurtesen Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Advantages of Using SQL ? maybe thats the problem, you are not designed to remember millions of girlfriends names/numbers etc. thats why you are inefficient by design in this area particular area of operation. so you hire a secretary which will improve your efficiency :) Evren Robert LaGrasse wrote: > If I could remember the names and numbers of millions of girlfriends > simultaneously, I could still call any of them faster myself. Having a > secretary to keep track of my dates and remind me when special occasions > come up is also useful. Either way, I'm a pretty happy guy... > > ;) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SIMICRO ML [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Advantages of Using SQL ? > > > Peter Nixon wrote: > >>On Tue August 5 2003 06:37, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > >>Its like saying that example B is faster than example A in the following >>scenario: >> >>A) You need to call your girlfriend. You know her number, so you dial it > > and > >>talk to her. >> >>B) You need to call your girlfriend, You don't know her number so you call > > >>your secretary and ask her to look it up in the phone book. Your secretary > > >>looks up the number, calls you back and give it to you, then you call your > > >>girlfriend. >> >>Which do you thing is faster?? Bzzzt. WRONG ANSWER. Just because the phone > > >>book has a great, wonderfully efficient index, and your secretary is very >>good at using it, doesn't mean that it's faster than having the number in >>your own head.... > > > ... and what if you had _millions_ of girlfriends :-D > > @+ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
