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Sorry, thats not my model of complex :) If I have to store one line of text IE: "This is a line of text" in a database, the amount of overhead required to do th
by bifrost 13y ago
Sorry, thats not my model of complex :) If I have to store one line of text IE: "This is a line of text" in a database, the amount of overhead required to do that is huge. To store that simply with a flat file, I just put it into the file, thats a low complexity system.
- corresation 13y agoYour original post referred to it as "incredibly complex". It isn't at all complex. Is it more complex -- at least to start -- that an fopen/fwrite/fclose? Sure, but it's still easier than virtually any other part of any solution worth doing. Worse still, avoiding such non-complexity early on almost certain dooms you to serious complexity later on, because soon enough silly things like concurrency pop up -- the sorts of issues that databases solved decades ago.
- jacques_chester 13y agoYou're right. It's harder to start with an RDMBS; the threshold of action is higher. RDBMSes are like that because in return they make certain guarantees about their behaviour. Most of the time, the gratification from those guarantees is highly delayed and so, humans being humans, we heavily discount their value.