I hate Databases

Feb 25, 2005 12:11

It's often said that as engineers our imagination is often cramped by the limitations of the tools we use ( Read more... )

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adarsh_bhat February 25 2005, 02:29:00 UTC
I work for an "Enterprise Content Management" company and I should know :) . The way we do it is to put information about the content ("meta-data") in the database, and the content itself in a filesystem. The best of both worlds, eh?

Not quite. But what matters is that we put in the right marketing terminology. You could never sell your file-system-with-locking mechanism for millions of dollars. :)

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