Are you not allowed to use any DB, or is the decision just to not allow you to use the company Sybase, so you don't bother the DBA? If you use the DBI with DBD::SQLite there will be no need for a DB server (it's included in the module) and the whole DB will be a single file. This removes any administration, the DBA is happy, your boss should be happy too, and you gain scalability and the convenience of using SQL to work on your data.

SQLite is really pretty fast, and ideally suited for this kind of single-user application. Just test whether the DB file doesn't grow past your OS limit if there is one and you should be fine.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Force perl to release memory back to the operating system by mirod
in thread Force perl to release memory back to the operating system by Roger

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