Re: Text field types and efficiency
| From: | jaskirat singh | Date: | Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:33:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Text field types and efficiency | ||
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I am not sure if I get 100% of what you mean .. but what ever ... do not
look for efficiency in such a small no. of records .. look for convenience in
the long run.
HTH
At 07:52 AM 2/17/01 +0000, Alan Hale wrote:
>Question from a beginner: I want to associate a fairly small amount of
>text (about 2500 chars) with records in a MySQL table, and display that
>as html. But is it more efficient to include the text in the database
>(in the appropriate text field type) and generate the html on the fly,
>or to just put a link in the data base field to a pre-composed html
>page?
>
>Hope the question is clear. Many thanks
>
>Alan Hale
>
>
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