Data Persistence

[Keith]

Hi all

I'm looking into persisting data for the life of an application.

Can anyone enlighten me as to which would produce the least memory overhead;

i) Storing dataset objects in a hashtable

ii) Storing the datasets as xml files and reloading them into memory

Cheers

Keith

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

You can store more than one table in a dataset. I would store the
dataset as xml.

Ken
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Hi all

I'm looking into persisting data for the life of an application.

Can anyone enlighten me as to which would produce the least memory overhead;

i) Storing dataset objects in a hashtable

ii) Storing the datasets as xml files and reloading them into memory

Cheers

Keith

[Cor Ligthert]

Keith,

For what kind of application, Webform or windowsform.

(I see not the need for a windowsform so when it is that, than maybe can you
explain why you want to do that. The persistentie from a dataset is the same
as from an hashtable or whatever)

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Keith" <ke**********@bowe.co.uk> schrieb:

I'm looking into persisting data for the life of an application.

Can anyone enlighten me as to which would produce the least memory
overhead;

i) Storing dataset objects in a hashtable

ii) Storing the datasets as xml files and reloading them into memory

I think these two options serve different purposes. Storing data in a
hashtable doesn't make it persistent, storing it in an XML file does.

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