[Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call" List

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:32, Chris Shaw wrote:
> That is a matter of opinion and not in any way factual.... SQL, just as
> everything else, is as secure as YOU make it... As you said, it's a language
> for querying relational databases, it has no knowledge of security. That's
> what firewalls, encryption and strong passwords are for...
> 
> However, for the purpose of blocking numbers based on a do-not-call list, it
> will work perfectly fine. It's lightweight, fast and relatively efficient...

Of course so is grep on a flat file where you don't need to expend
memory worring about cache and indexes. Grep also doesn't introduce you
to outside connections.

You have no relations, don't use a relational DB just because you don't
wish to write file routines.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>