Preferred clientstorage setting for client variables

2007-04-25 Thread james carberry
What is the best way to store client variables? We are in the process of completely redesigning our website and considering changing the clientstorage attribute in cfapplication from a named SQL datasource to Cookie to prevent having 100,000's of records pile up on our SQL server. The primary

Re: Preferred clientstorage setting for client variables

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Scott
Database here. Stay away from storing in cookies as much as possible. On 4/26/07, james carberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to store client variables? We are in the process of completely redesigning our website and considering changing the clientstorage attribute in

Re: Preferred clientstorage setting for client variables

2007-04-25 Thread Matt Robertson
On 4/25/07, james carberry wrote: What is the best way to store client variables? Better way to phrase that is what is the least bad way? :-) Cookies are a disaster. To make a long story short you can't count on them being present all the time, and you have to wait for a trip to the client

Re: Preferred clientstorage setting for client variables

2007-04-25 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
: Preferred clientstorage setting for client variables What is the best way to store client variables? We are in the process of completely redesigning our website and considering changing the clientstorage attribute in cfapplication from a named SQL datasource to Cookie to prevent having 100,000's

RE: Preferred clientstorage setting for client variables

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Watts
Writing to the db. As robust as your db is. Nobody loves a thing that executes a db read and write at every page request, but at least there are no vultures circling your server when you do it this way. The problems you will cause will be manageable, one way or the other. Unless you

RE: Preferred clientstorage setting for client variables

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Watts
What is the best way to store client variables? We are in the process of completely redesigning our website and considering changing the clientstorage attribute in cfapplication from a named SQL datasource to Cookie to prevent having 100,000's of records pile up on our SQL server. The