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Solid.net Online Database Services

It is between difficult and impossible to discuss online databases separate from the rest of our services. Almost all of the creative things we do use databases in some form. The creation, maintenance, reliability, and integrity of online databases is a constant issue for us. We would not consider hosting any kind of a critical database on one of our servers unless that server has a RAID 5 disk subsystem.

All of the projects discussed in our programming section use databases. Even the example of an embedded server uses a database in its simulation of the sawmill embedded server. Databases are endemic to the work we do.

We sometimes jokingly say that even many major projects are composed of just two large steps.

Step one is creating a large SQL database.

Step two is writing PERL programs and/or JAVA programs to create the correct SQL inquiries to pick individual records out of the database.

While we joke about, the reality is, it is the truth.

Please return to our home page and follow the links in the programming section for discussions about some of our projects.

If you would like to discuss if it could be mutually beneficial for us to provide services to you, send an email message to newservice@solid.net with a note about what services you would like to discuss.

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