> Nowadays I prefer to use a database table to store values. I guess SQL could be considered as a kind of DSL. For user configurable options this is great, for

> Nowadays I prefer to use a database table to store values. I guess SQL could be considered as a kind of DSL. For user configurable options this is great, for system configuration it's awful. If you copy your production database you may end up reading/writing to places you shouldn't be. It also sucks if you use a shared development database (which is awful too, but unrelated).