> I think you convinced me that I should store references to files in my
>database, instead
> of the actual file text. While I don't think transactions would be
>really be an issue, I am counting on having at least a couple thousand
>rows, and the text files could potentially be very large.

If that also means a couple of thousand files, try not to store all
of them in a single directory. That has performance issues as well.

Gordon L. Burditt