in reply to Re: Re: Re: PERL/CGI Performance
in thread Perl/CGI Performance for a Shopping Cart

Agreed, however I was thinking the integrity of the structure of the database, as opposed to the integrity of the data in database.

For example a badly formed "query" may remove data partway across fields, damage the data definition (if there is one) etc etc...

With an RDMBS you're looking at a standard interface to your data that wont corrupt the framework of your RDBMS.