[Linkbat-devel] DB or not DB, that is the question

[James M. <lin...@ji...>]

Hi All!

Well, I have been thinking about this and think that we will still need to 
store the data is some way for dynamic access. One place is for the questions 
and answers. We could *theoretically* create these pages in advance, but 
would still need a method to access them randomly, plus be able to select 
questions based on the current topic. So I see very little difference in 
reading a DB to create the questions dynamically as compared to creating some 
"artificial" database to store the pre-made pages so that we can access them 
randomly. 

Also, an eventual goal is to have a search mechanism that not only goes 
through the tutorial pages, but also through the KUs. So I think that a 
storage and index mechanisms is unavoidable, so I think that we need to go 
forward with the idea the KUs will be imported into a database.

However, I still think that a lot of the pages **could** be created on the 
fly, such as the glossary terms and MoreInfo. Anyone got any comments about 
all this?

Regards,

jim

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