On 11/15/05, Mark Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My question is this: What would be the best way on a Linux system to > keep track of this unique key identifier? Or is there a better way to > accomplish this task? I chose to write it to the Windows registry with > VB so it wouldn't get deleted from the disk, it was not easily > tampered with by users of the program, and really, it was just one > less file that I had to keep up with. Having the key off by even one > record could potentially catastrophic. I keep these files forever and > I process and print around 1 million statements per month.
I probably just don't understand your process well enough to comment, but it seems to me like it might be easier to just pump the data into an RDBMS as step 1 and then rely on the facilities the RDBMS provides for doing a lot of this other stuff... Is there a specific reason why that isn't an option? Failing that, Linux has no registry per se, so you'd probably just have to write your key values out to a file somewhere, or store the keys in an RDBMS. TTYL, Phil -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
