pk has hit the nail on the head i think!
>> The reason I was thinking about dispensing with the DB backend is
>> because I
>> have a very cranky database which is holding information that does not
>> need
>> to be "dynamic." I have a couple thousand product thumbnails (and this
>> number increases by about 2000 every month) and all of their sizes are
>> sitting in an FMP database. Then there are a hundred fifty thousand
>> product
>> descriptions, all sitting in the same FMP database, but they are rarely
>> changed, so I could just update one "record" as needed rather than
>> keeping
>> the whole thing dynamic just to take care of those few times.
>
>
> So, that's my own biased bit... Perl not an alternative to MySQL.
> Instead, MySQL _and_ Perl will work like a champ for you.
> \
-hcir
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