Database Access vs Turning on SessionState

[CW]

My asp application currently does not rely on session state at all, and I
have turned it off.

The function that I need to implements include a customer specific price
list. I am thinking of cacheing the price list (which is different for each
customer) in session variables rather than retrieving a copy of the customer
price list each time.

On one hand, with the database approach, each time a customer browses a
price list, it entails not only a round trip to the server, but also a round
trip access to the database server. On the other hand, with the session
state approach, if the same customer goes to a different page, and then
comes back to the price list url, the page can loads information directly
from cache stored in session.

Which approach is better?

[Rasika Wijayaratne]

If the price list is big I would prefer retrieving it from the database, rather than stroing it in servers' memory using Sessions

Rasika Wijayaratne