Ivo Köthnig wrote:
I think the bottleneck is using a database mangement system (here mysql). So my question is: What is the advantage of using it? [...] For me it always looks as we use the database just to use the database. So again: where is the advantage?
1) easy backup 2) easy construction of queries (SQL) 3) flexibility with construction of *new* queries that we haven't thought of before 4) don't (well, shouldn't) need to update hundreds of data structures upon every edit 5) databases are designed to do this sort of thing (esp. indexing)
There are probably *loads* more.
Timwi