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I am writing a web application in PHP that will store large numbers of blocks of arbitrary length text. Is MySQL well suited for this task with a longtext field or similar, or should I store each block of text in its own file and use a MySQL table for indexes and filenames? Think online bulletin board type stuff, like how you would store each users posts.
Yes, MySQL is the way to go. A flat file would take much longer to search etc.
Mysql all the way. Much more efficient.