Thanks, and my apology for not offering sufficient details.

The questions are stored in the database (MySQL). The total statistics need to be accessed every time the web page is accessed, because they are displayed e.g. (Maths -> 3000 questions, English -> 2050 questions, etc). The total statistics don't change frequently, only when new questions are added or when existing ones are deleted (but that doesn't happen so often). Speed of access is important - the faster, the better.

I've saved the total statistics in Perl Storable. I'm guessing it's more efficient to get these values from the stored hash reference than querying the database. But I'm not exactly sure.

In reply to Re^2: Database or Storable? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Database or Storable? by Anonymous Monk

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