> Basically you've probably just created another database I think that's a fair assessment of persistent queues, using "database" in the most general sense. >

> Basically you've probably just created another database I think that's a fair assessment of persistent queues, using "database" in the most general sense. > Worse, that database may be different to your other databases. Different isn't inherently worse. It's just a different tool for a different job than a traditional RDBMS. The problem only occurs when we pretend they're the same.