I appreciate your tone and like your comment (read: upvoted). But I want to respectfully disagree with it.
I don't agree with the part of your comment that says, essentially, work with the tools your team already has.
There are some cases where you have to choose the technology that makes the most sense and your team has to get with the program. If you're storing data in any way, you have what I think of as an obligation to choose the best technology to store it.
I know and have worked with people who would write everything to a csv file because they know how to do that and prefer to do that. And toss it on a server somewhere with no redundancy or backups of any kind.
We all come from different places and have different jobs. But some times you have to suck it up and learn a new thing to be effective in this industry.
Sometimes a CSV file actually is the right answer. Sometimes a database of some flavor is the right answer.
The point I was trying to make and didn't do such a good job of was that if you're dealing with a web app, a database is probably the right answer, and if you're using a database, you should maximize what it can do for you.
I don't agree with the part of your comment that says, essentially, work with the tools your team already has.
There are some cases where you have to choose the technology that makes the most sense and your team has to get with the program. If you're storing data in any way, you have what I think of as an obligation to choose the best technology to store it.
I know and have worked with people who would write everything to a csv file because they know how to do that and prefer to do that. And toss it on a server somewhere with no redundancy or backups of any kind.
We all come from different places and have different jobs. But some times you have to suck it up and learn a new thing to be effective in this industry.
Sometimes a CSV file actually is the right answer. Sometimes a database of some flavor is the right answer.
The point I was trying to make and didn't do such a good job of was that if you're dealing with a web app, a database is probably the right answer, and if you're using a database, you should maximize what it can do for you.