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I've been working on a VB project for almost a year now that started with somebody else's crappy code. Ended up throwing out 90% of it. Hence, the quote: Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. From: "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Written by ma homey Lord Tennyson John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Alvaro Zuniga To: [email protected] Sent: 9/17/03 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mail vs database for stats Hi john: I guess a little work, I will probably just skip creating the body of the message and sending it. Then, use the variables for a query to go into the database and a couple other addons like counters or other calculations. This will take some designing to see what they really want and most importantly, getting rid of all the crap that is sent to them for some unknown reason. Now, what is The Charge of the Light Brigade? Probably some nice piece of literature I should have already read :-) Take care, Alvaro Zuniga On Wednesday 17 September 2003 11:57 am, John Hebert wrote: > Wow. Sounds like you have a heck of a job ahead of you, Alvaro. Reminds me > of "The Charge of the Light Brigade". > > "Into the valley of Death > Rode the six hundred." > > :) > > John Hebert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alvaro Zuniga > To: [email protected] > Sent: 9/17/03 11:44 AM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mail vs database for stats > > Thanks Dustin: > That is a very good quetion. I believe the emails are stored in folders > and > they are accessed as need basis and deleted after some period of time. I > know > it is a terrible idea buy it is already in place. I am looking forward > to > change that. It will be fun because this interacts with about 320 > databases > controlled by a cronjob that runs every minute. Some email is processed > here > and then some data is posted to another server which is the one > generating > most of the emails. The emails contain the information of every monetary > > transaction which could better managed the simple way, a database and an > > interface. I wonder who came up with that but I am sure this person > never > imagined this will grow to this extent. > > Take care, > > Alvaro Zuniga > > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:27 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > At 12:26 AM 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >My question is, is the overhead of sending an email considerably > > larger > > > > than an already active database connection with locked > > tables(mysql). If > > > > I invest the time rewritting this application so that a statistics > > > database exists instead of sending this emails to the person that > > does > > > > the work out of the emails worth it? I am mostly concerned with > > server > > > > performance rather than making someone elses work easier. > > > > I would definitely record the information in the database rather than > > send > > > an email. If nothing else you need to consider the amount of time > > taken to > > > startup a new process to transmit the email vs. the already running > > process > > > that is updating the database. > > > > Who the heck is reading all of these emails? Man, that job must suck! > > > > "Cool, only 230,234 emails to go and I can grab some lunch." > > > > > > --- > > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> > > Providing expertise in the management, integration, and > > security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
