Files, Streams, and E-mail
Matthew A. MacDonald · Apress eBooks · 2004
There’s good reason why you examined ADO.NET before considering simpler dataaccess techniques such as writing and reading to ordinary files. Traditional file access is generally much less useful in a web application than it is in a desktop program. Databases, on the other hand, are designed from the ground up to support a large load of simultaneous users with speed, safety, and efficiency. Most web applications will rely on a database for some features, but many won’t have any use for straight file access.