RE: [PHP] Whats faster? text files or mysql?
| From: | Jay Blanchard | Date: | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:11:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Whats faster? text files or mysql? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Isn't the database kept in a file? Why would that file be faster than a
plain
text file?
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Of course it is, but the file is kept accessible by the database server
deamon so you are not reading from a file in the tradional sense.