On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Peter Reid wrote:
> >Using custom properties and/or custom property arrays should handle
> >this just fine. Performance and reliability should be good with this
> >approach, and the only significant limitation would be that the full
> >size of the database should fit comfortably in memory (e.g., on a PC
> >with 64MB RAM you should probably only consider this if your database
> >size is only going to be a few MB, on a UNIX system with 256MB RAM 20
> >or 30MB database should be fine as long as you're not loading and
> >saving the whole thing every second or two). Something like this
> >built as a long-running process (e.g. an add-on to the mchttp server)
> >would be a viable replacement for a lot of things being done with
> >the big RDBMS systems.
> > Regards,
> > Scott
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Given the memory limitation (it will be a
> WIn 95/98/NT desktop rather than a Unix box), is a file-based
> approach viable at all?
Certainly. It's just slower and more work. And unless you have 10's
or 100's of thousands of students, probably unnecessary.
Regards,
Scott
> Cheers
> Peter
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