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by sokoloff 3660 days ago
Absent an instruction to specifically "do not use a database", I feel like even 10K rows suggests the use a database as the data structure and then the DB query interfaces as the interface.

I don't see why you wouldn't use a database for a problem that it's particularly good at addressing.
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mattzito 3660 days ago
As I think I said elsewhere, we allowed people to use a database if they wanted to (and could install it themselves on the dev VM we gave them), but then we would include looking at how they designed the schema, how much thought did they put into connection handling, etc.

But most of the people who successfully passed this didn't use a database, it just wasn't enough data to be meaningful - thousands of rows at most.

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fapjacks 3660 days ago
Yeah, or you could use the opportunity to demonstrate that you know how to roll your own data structures, provided you've clarified that the dataset isn't likely to grow. Instead of showing them you know how to install a database.
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