On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:27:29PM -0700, Steve Sheldon wrote: > From: Dave Ahn <ahn at vec.wfubmc.edu> > >On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:33:50PM -0700, Steve Sheldon wrote: > >> > >> Flat arrays are evil. > > > >> At the very least using a psuedo database like MySQL will save the time of > > > >While SQL databases would be cool, I think they are overkill. Something > >like BDBM should be sufficient for our needs... > > Yes, but I think using a SQL database is a better long term solution and would be useful for recording other things such as historical INL game stats. If it wasn't difficult to write the code to access it it'd be a slam dunk. Using an SQL server would increase the complexity of the Netrek code by an order of magnitude. -Tom