With all due respect, I have to agree with Abigail on this one. There is no way, given the limited information that the Anonymous Monk shared, to determine what the appropriate course of action is. Regarding your 'do you think' list: Abigail was using the differing extremes to show that the appropriate response to the Seeker would depend upon what his or her real situation was. These were clearly hypothetical extremes that were crafted to show the the answer is not cut and dried.

In fact, Abigail's main point is the following:

What you are giving is some very bad, unfounded advice.

Abigail has made it clear that your advice is unfounded. I think that's reasonable because trying to make decisions with incomplete specs is a recipe for failure. This was not saying anything about you, just about your advice in this situation. I realize that, later in the post, the comment about you not understanding databases was personal and not fair as it appears to only be based on one post, but I don't think that it's reasonable to start a flame over this. I've seen this too many times. Nothing good ever comes of it.

Please, let's leave personal attacks behind. We're all just here to learn and share knowledge, right?

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid - no flames, please) Re(3): faster access times by Ovid
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