Luis - you're quite polite so I'll assume that you are ignorant rather than prejudiced.
You have a university email so I'll also assume you're a student who wants to learn. So here's your lesson for today: Don't judge people by their cover, or by their color, or by their name, or by their service provider. Don't assume all AOL users are technical lightweights, just like you don't want people to assume that all people Named Rodriguez are illegal aliens. AOL may be a favorite with internet newbies but in many parts of the country it also offers the best service. Never make assumptions about people based on what ISP they use. In a message dated 5/20/2004 8:48:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:45:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Another perspective on the subject of BLOB vs. Links. > > > > Links are easier to implement and may be an OK way to start. However, a file > > system is really a crude database, and I emphasize "crude". It's not very good at > > handling high transaction rates, access from multiple machines, or volume. > > > > If your application grows quickly and before you know it you have hundreds of > > folders with thousands of files in each - your file system will slow to a crawl. > > All the performance, security, and consistancy features developers have worked so > > hard to put into database engines don't or barely exist in file systems. > > > > So - if you go the link approach - you'll be fine for a while, but when you see > > the directory structure starting to buckle - it might be time to give BLOBs > > another look. > > I'm going to be honest, sorry. Your argument seems to make sense and > this information is really relevant for me -- thanks. I, however, just > get this fuzzy feeling inside that tells me not to trust anything > technical any AOL user may say. Sorry again, but this time for making it > seem like a troll. It's not, seriously, I'm just being honest. > > Can anyone non-AOL-lite back up Udikarni's argument? 8) > > Luis > -- > GnuPG Key fingerprint = 113F B290 C6D2 0251 4D84 A34A 6ADD > 4937 E20A 525E > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
