Re: Judicious use of session variables, how much is too much

2008-12-09 Thread Nathan Strutz
Actually, I disagree with Scott, somewhat... While the amount of data in the variables does increase the size of the data stored, it's the number of variables that greatly increases the complexity of your application. Programmers fight complexity. That's one of our jobs. Now, the amount of data

Re: Judicious use of session variables, how much is too much

2008-12-09 Thread Nathan Strutz
Actually, I disagree with Scott, somewhat... While the amount of data in the variables does increase the size of the data stored, it's the number of variables that greatly increases the complexity of your application. Programmers fight complexity. That's one of our jobs. Now, the amount of data

Re: Judicious use of session variables, how much is too much

2008-12-09 Thread Nathan Strutz
Actually, I disagree with Scott, somewhat... While the amount of data in the variables does increase the size of the data stored, it's the number of variables that greatly increases the complexity of your application. Programmers fight complexity. That's one of our jobs. Now, the amount of data

Judicious use of session variables, how much is too much

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Stewart
I've inherited an application that uses session variables all over the place.. I think every form variable has been moved to the session scope. I'm in the process of documenting them, and I have 67 variables documented so far. My question is: How much is too much and will having this many session

Re: Judicious use of session variables, how much is too much

2008-12-08 Thread Ian Skinner
Scott Stewart wrote: My question is: How much is too much and will having this many session vars affect performance. It is more if the amount of data in the variables then the number of variables. One session variable containing a 5k structure will have more of a performance impact the