Where can I save my chat history.

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Hi,
I am developing a chat application...
and All the chat history is saved as seperate textfiles (namely abc@bbc.com.txt, bill@gmail.com.txt)
But Now, I want to make a recent chats list (as like Skype).
But taking the date from these chat text files is not a good solution.
What can I use instead of text files ?
If I save all chats in a single XML file, the file may be very large, so I am afraid abt perfomance....

Posted 17-Nov-13 22:50pm

Yesudasan Moses

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agent_kruger · Answer 1 · 2013-11-18T02:02:00

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Use database to save long histories such as SQL,Oracle or Access (but i prefer not to use access online).

Posted 18-Nov-13 2:02am

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Yesudasan Moses 20-Nov-13 5:12am

so a simple chat client needs oracle or sql server to be installed ???
am not talking abt saving on server...

agent_kruger 20-Nov-13 5:42am

without saving it in database you cannot handle it but if you save it in text a lot of file will accumilate. (Sql is the best option but for higher data like 5,000,000 entries oracle is good)