Re: [Dev-C++] Re: RE: need advice on data storage

[Big P. <big...@gm...>]

Hi,

Reid, what would be the benefit of using an SQL database for quite
simple data storage? I don't need any features an SQL engine could
give me, at least not one I know of - related data storage, easy
searching, good hierarchy. but, I'd add quite an overhead, drop in
quite some kB of exec data, and mix in another language. SQL is no
problem for me, I've been using SQL DBs succesfully for web pages
earlier, and it was really fine for storing related data and
performing searches and sub-selects. this is not the job right now.
I'm dumping a variable sized memory image and some info about it,
that's my project file, and I have really just a few variables that
will be saved as variables - under 20 at first count. user works on
just 1 project at a time, that's no prob again.
I don't want to encrypt these save files, but do not want to encourage
users of hand-editing them. so again, this is not an issue. still, I
prefer plain one-file saving.
one thing, I've mentioned I have some selects. namely, I have
currently 2 of them, each having ~ 6 options, so this does not require
an SQL engine...
so, I'm not wanting to disargue in that SQL is good for some jobs,
just asking if it would bring me any _useful_ benefits which I don't
see ?

tom

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