Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:47:35 03/15/05
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On March 15, 2005 at 19:17:11, Lance Perkins wrote: >I agree that the engine info has to be in some data store that has simple query >facility. However, a database might be too heavy for this kind of application. >MS now has a free version of their SQL server, but its not light at all. Neither >is MySQL. Agreed. >I am actually leaning towards an XML file. Or even simplier, why not an INI >file. As for XML, it lacks triggers, indexes and everything else that would make it more valuable than text. The only thing it adds is a UI, and it forces to a single type (browser). >As for the format of the ID, the GUID concept is a nice idea. If you want a super-simple database: http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/fastdb.html or: http://www.sqlite.org/ And (of course) the same SQL Schema will work on anything else as well.
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