If your company is unwilling to use the right too for the job, then you're out of luck. As for administration - no, it doesn't take much, if the database is dedicated to this program of yours and doesn't allow remote access.
And even if it does take "a lot of time" you need to weigh that up against the costs of continuing as you are. And against the costs when your dataset grows even further. | [reply] |
If your company doesn't want to use a database because it's too expensive, then they should have no problem in deciding for the cheaper option of getting the machine 2GB of RAM so that it can do the job required.
2GB of RAM can't cost much, can it? Not when you compare it to the time taken and expense of administering a database.
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How much time goes to administrate a 125 Mb textfile? | [reply] |
Sorry if I'm missing something, but it's EASY AND FREE to setup a mySQL database. I did it on my laptop in under half-an-hour. Then you can create indexes and sort efficiently and yada..yada..yada. Besides, SQL is a helluvalot easier to learn than Perl.
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