Re: Because you guys/gals/girls/women/insert pc term here are a smart lot

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 01:07 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/1/7 Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>: > > Not just that, but aren't there greater overheads if the database is > > physically larger in size? I assume that char might be a bit quicker to > > work with than varchar, but I am pretty certain that using a fulltext > > index on a text field is ridiculously slow compared to the former two. > > > > Especially if the programmer is not taking advantage of the database's > built in search / sort and other functions. Those type of functions > can run over O(n^2) if the programmer is not careful and frankly, php > is a language that is used very often by novices (myself included) who > may not know better. Be careful with large databases if you do not > have experience with them. > Could be worse, I see a lot of novice programming coming from the ColdFusion camp. Possibly because it has tags for most of the common needs, they don't actually need to learn how to program ;) Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk