Re: Data Storage Issue (Basic Issue)

On Fri, 9 May 2008 07:37:29 -0700 (PDT), Srini <Srinihello@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Storing or Reading a file in database or on to disk in a web server
>environment? considering all things like network, connections, memory
>are ideal.

It doesn't matter since the reading and writing are not
interchangeable.  

Reading is faster since it can be cached with no physical disk i/o. 

In an SQL database with writing you have to do actual physical i/o
PLUS disk i/o to handle transaction logging and rollback
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