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How would you transfer data between your data structures and databases?
I'm learning programming in school and I have this question that's bugging me about data structures and transferring the information stored inside them to databases. We're doing just small systems - ...
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An XML file or Database?
I am re-writing a section of my site and am trying to decide how much of a rewrite this will be. At the moment I have a web service feed that generates an xml once per day. I then use this xml file on ...
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Is it better to use a Database or a data structure for network stack?
I've built a multi threaded messaging application in C and I'm currently using a MySQL Memory table to save the session ID, but I'm not sure whether this was a good decision or not.
It works like ...
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Using a column to store the company or a separate database?
I am writing an system for the company to put their promotion material on the site, which is like some kinds of CMS. So, I need a database that store their data, but I am considering how to store ...
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How to quickly search through a very large list of strings / records on a database
I have the following problem: I have a database containing more than 2 million records.
Each record has a string field X and I want to display a list of records for which field X contains a certain ...
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Will B-Trees and Other Data Structures Become Obsolete With The Advent of Solid State Drives?
Many (perhaps most?) database applications today use B-Trees and variations to store data, because this data structure optimizes the read, write and seek operations on a hard disk (and these ...
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CMS and Databases vs. DIY
I have been programming for many years now, primarily in PHP and the like and would consider myself an intermediate programmer. Some of my online projects have now gone global and very widely used, i ...