Re: Proposal: Shopping::Basket.pm - the plan

[Robin Szemeti]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > In some kind of loggable format that can be fed into a suitable data
> > mining application (Either by slapping the data in a huge database
> > directly or some easily parsable plain log file.) 
> 
> No real point putting it in a database since, until you start mining it,
> you're probably not going to want to retrieve the data and AFAIK it's
> faster to append to a file than do a DB insert and it's also easier to
> back up plain files than DBs.

database every time.

an MySQL insert is so quick it is not worth worrying about .. compared to
the rest of the process time involved in an Apache/HTTPS exchange its
irrelevant . 

and DBs are jsut as easy to backup as plain file .. mysqldump -u blah etc
> backupfile.db 

moreover the information is there in a db for when you need it for 'show
me my previous purchses' etc

-- 
Robin Szemeti

The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!