Comments on: Some Uses of SQL Databases in Game Development

By: Vkkumar

Vkkumar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:06:32 +0000

Excellent info on relational databases brother it looks like as if i have read a quick book on this topic.thanx for sharing this knowledge with us.

By: Rein

Rein — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:36:23 +0000

Actually, not every database system requires a server. SQLite consists just of the sqlite file (the database) and a library manipulating this database.

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To assert or not to assert | .mischief.mayhem.soap. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:59:22 +0000

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By: p�rlanta

p�rlanta — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:24:59 +0000

Storing data in flat files is better practice.

By: postgresql fanboy

postgresql fanboy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:22:31 +0000

I use postgresql for games now, switched to postgresql after sun oracle got mysql

By: Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:31:27 +0000

well what is great about storing data in the cloud is it means being able to work from any computer, accessing your files is not limited to one rig… however if the internet is down, local storage is second best to none…

By: Raymund @ Pinoy Social Network

Raymund @ Pinoy Social Network — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:54:34 +0000

What about the current trend of storing data in the cloud? Similar to what Amazon (Simpledisk) and Google (BigTable) is providing?

By: Gareth Lees

Gareth Lees — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:42:44 +0000

Thanks for the article, this is one for the bookmark list.

@Anonymous: How can storage in flat files EVER be good practise? You can’t reliably enforce referential integrity therefore at some point your data will corrupt. Remember also, that by using a RDBMS it is fairly simple to look at different entities by referencing from others, can you easily and efficiently do this with flat files?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:18:06 +0000

Storing data in flat files is better practice.

By: Freelance programmer

Freelance programmer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:31:28 +0000

You can’t beat MySQL for this kind of thing if:

- you need to easily and quickly generate reports/filters etc.
- you have masses of data (although if you have masses of warnings/errors then you have bigger problems to worry about…)