Re:I guess it HAS to be better to sell it (Score 1)

I find it hard to believe that having a programmer on hand to generate targeted reports from a database for you application monitoring, wouldn't be better then having (how many people do you need to parse through a 86,400 record spreadsheet, looking for important rows?). No, at least for your example, database would absolutly be better, no question. As far as it being throw away data, you just clear the table. Hell the database can have triggers based on the data, then you don't need anyone to parse through the doc, then it could archinve those trigger points. Dude, do you need a contract software developer? I could be available.