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GeneralRe: Three things you should never put in your database Pin
AspDotNetDev2-May-12 17:26
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GeneralDon't take it seriously... Pin
Dave Kerr2-May-12 22:57
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GeneralI'm right. I'm always right. For every situation. Pin
Chris Maunder3-May-12 7:16
cofounderChris Maunder3-May-12 7:16 
Oh man. Not another one of these "my advice for my type of work is gospel and works for everyone" type articles.

1. Storing BLOBs is sometimes the *only* practical option you have.

2. What if your ephemeral data generates, itself, important data that is persisted? A crude example is session data: storing it in a database means that when things are weird you can perform sll sorts of queries on the sessions and spot malicious activity

3. I don't even know where to start on this one other than to say that if you want to store logs in flat files then why are you storing them at all. If your logs are small enough that you can manually scan them every day then fine, but if you have serious data then log only if you need to, and the #1 reason to log is so you can search the logs later, and, well, that's what a database is really, really good for.
cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

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