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What is so large in your database? Do you stour pictures or large datablobs? What do you consider large? How many rows?
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using flat files (text file) as a database is not recommended because you cannot just jump to a row. you need to loop through each line in the file until you find the record you are looking for.<br />
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if you are just placing static text that you load the whole text file this will work just fine.
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static text<br />
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biographies about different people<br />
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but should each person have their own text file
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a one html page biography about one person may be 5000 characters
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php, windows server 2008, iis7, fastcgi<br />
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use a textfile as a database &nbsp;<br />
is this what caching is<br />
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would this be a php odbc connection<br />
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my sql server 2005 database is getting very large (which is slowing load time for my important data), so I would like to use a textfile for my data that is not important<br />
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why is it not recommended to use a textfile as a database does it use alot of cpu or ram<br />
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php, windows server 2008, iis7, fastcgi

use a textfile as a database  
is this what caching is

would this be a php odbc connection

my sql server 2005 database is getting very large (which is slowing load time for my important data), so I would like to use a textfile for my data that is not important

why is it not recommended to use a textfile as a database does it use alot of cpu or ram





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