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On Dec 15, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Andy Kohler wrote: > I'm not sure these 2 need to be separate options. Store the files in > the > database, in whatever TEXT/CLOB/XML data-type is appropriate (and > supported > by your db)... assuming there are no performance reasons not to do so. > That way everything's in one place, easy to get consistent backups. > > As far as data entry, if your maintenance front-end is web based (as I > assume from "CGI forms"), what about using http upload (input > type="file")? Again, thank you for the prompt reply. Actually, the implementation you suggest was the path I was considering. Unfortunately, this means leaving some sort of text lying around on my file system for importing. Similarly, it poses the problem of editing; in order to edit data in such an implementation I will need to export the big chunk, edit, and re-import. That is sort of klunky, but still it is what I was considering. -- Eric