[dwh]

This was a great article and it explained the concept very well. I do have a minor quibble in your example. Rather than name= dog, value=dog, it might help people understand better if the var name and var value were different, e.g. name=dog, value=terrier.

Something I'd add to the discussion is that cron and serialize go hand in hand. The best place to use serialize is when accessing data frequently, therefore using vb's cached datastore w/o adding a query...but the updating of data is relatively infrequent. A classic way to update that data periodically is cron.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...highlight=cron