FYI : there is extensive work being done on the area of file manipulation (adding, editing, deleting, moving/copying) as well as file syncronisation. We're going to be testing this for inclusion in the next point release, but a number of optimisations have already been checked in.

Cathal

Some years ago I read a article by Anders Kviby (tech.chief at Intericket) in a well respected Swedish computer paper about the importance of normalizing a data base. I'm not a computer specialist, nor a programmer - just a private webmaster and owner of a very large site with more then a couple of thousands documents/articles, blog, forums and so on. But I have since the start of my publishing on the Internet tried to learn as much as I can about what I am doing. One of the things I looked in to, without any success I'm afraid, was data bases, because I always failed trying to build something so simple as my own car driving journal.

The article about data base normalization covered what we in Sweden call relation data base, with connections/relations between the tables and fields in the data base. I remember that Anders Kviby  emphasized the importance of minimizing the data base by the method he called normalization.

Due to the speed problems DNN obvious face – why don’t try to establish a data base team, working closely to the core team and as a support team to the project teams? In my point of view, non project or core releasing should be authorized without the approval of such a data base team. This could speed up DNN to it’s maximum at present.

Tomas