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From a performance point of view what would be quicker, read a list from a flat file or retrieving it from the database?
Lets assume that the list will contain less than 1000 entries.
Hopefully someone can save me the time from doing a performance test.
Thanks for the input.
Elliot
If it's just data you need to access for read-only purpose, I would say a text-file... but if you need search capabilities, relational comparasions, ..., a database may be the option.
a textfile is faster. but as he said, if you need to search, etc.
DB is going to be what you want.