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Message: [QUOTE="pkent, post: 4751684"] I'd second that - it's a database that I'm reliably informed is very good in read-heavy operations, which sounds like the case here: usually the state doesn't change, which means there's little writing going on but much reading. [ OTOH I have ranted to my coworker at discovering that our version[1] of MySQL lacks certain features that I take for granted in Oracle, and indeed that one clause was silently ignored... ] Also, in my place of work we use MySQL for storing this kind of 'state information that can be used by more than one program at a time' in all sorts of applications and it seems to work really well. Obviously if you've already got another database available then I'm not saying you _have_ to use MySQL, just that it would probably be suitable for your application. P [1] Your version may differ, read the fine manual, etc [/QUOTE]