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

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Simon Wistow wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Nope.  Most proper database servers will allow you to take a backup of the
data in a consistent manner whilst it is still being used whereas you have
to ensure that your text file isnt being accessed while you copy it to
whatever medium you care to do your backups on.

Dont get confused by MySQL and the like. 

/J\
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