Looking for a safe and efficient way to "carry" data from page to page

[Brad]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Efficiency question: What would use more server resources - doing a query for each question, or doing a file read for each question? In general, are file reads more intensive than querying the database?

Amy

It depends on what sort of table you query. If the data is temp store it in memory and destory it once you are finished with it (or put it on the hard disk).

Reading from memory will be quicker then any sort of read on the HDD