General data base questions

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From: David Lee
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:52

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If there is a better place to ask this let me know.



I've never use a data base and don't really know where to start at. I come 
from the embedded world and am not very familiar with the PC programming 
world.

I'm working on an application which looks like it will have a large amount 
of data to keep track of and I thought some of these fancy data base 
components might make this easy.

My program will have a number of sensors to gather data from.(bytes, words, 
floats, Strings, maybe even jpeg files).

Currently only the computer running the application will need the data. In 
the future we might want to make the data available across the internet.

My real question is at what part do you decide to use a real data base for 
storing data instead of just dumping it to some file in your own format? How 
do you go about picking the type of data base to use? What other questions 
should I ask my self at this point?

Thanks

David

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