did you go through the example finder.
Although a DB sounds intimidating, it is programatically (programming interface) not to much different from any other io
1. Open resource
2. Use Resource
3. Close resource
1. open consists of opening a session to a database (this can be tricky) usually through a udl file or odbc data source. Unlike file io, you ususally setup this connection string prior to your application. UDLs are easy to use and test connections so make sure it works before writing your application.
2. Using your db consists of adding or reading records, this is usually done with a sql querry there are many resources for this, a write is adding a record (ie one line of data in a csv) and read is retriving a record. sql does have a learning curve
3. when done close the connection just as you would close the file in the csv
There are great advantages to using the DB over the csv, mostly when searching or accessing the data concurrently from multiple applications, if these advantages are important to you then I would move to a DB for data storage. You can still also save the data as csv in parallel until you get comfortable with DB io.
