Well there's some things you shouldn't do using the database, like maintaining sessions.

This doesnt quite ring true to me. I'm assuming you're talking about performance...? However I'm interested to know how you correlate user data back to a user without using the session_key as the identifier of the user...

I have a setup where a user may store personal data on website (for example a playlist). I use an RDMBS as the storage mechanism as it is robust, relatively fast and i can port my SQL92 complient application to another RDMBS relatively painlessley. For the user to edit that bit of data (for me to retrieve the correct data) I correlate the session_id to a user_id via sql...

OT to the original post, i'm interest in what mechanism you use, or would recommend..

In reply to Re: Re: Performance v's Maintainability by Ryszard
in thread Performance v's Maintainability by Ryszard

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