CGI Advice

[Gregory Lypny]

Hello everyone,

     I'm finally starting on my first Rev CGI project after a number  
of false starts and the usual delays.

     I have some basic CGIs successfully invoking scripts in a stack,  
and I have a question concerning the storage of data.  Do you think  
it is better to store data, for example, student class lists, as a  
fields in the stack or as a text files?  All of the lists that will  
be created will be editable by students or by me and none will be  
longer than, say, 50,000 lines.  I'm also interested in your thoughts  
on how to avoid update anomalies, that is, where data is being  
updated by more than one student at the same time.  I was thinking  
about a "busy" variable of some sort.

     Regards,

         Greg


     Gregory Lypny

     Associate Professor of Finance
     John Molson School of Business
     Concordia University
     Montreal, Canada