Database driven articles

[PlastechFish]

Hello,

I am supernew to ColdFusion and to these forums, and I'm sorry if this is an
overly obvious/retarded question. That said:

I am develping a site which will have regularly updated articles. I want to
have the latest ones displayed on the front page, and the older ones saved in
an archive. I figured that a database would be the best means to this end -- I
could store the article, the author, the date, the catagory, the title, and the
content. My question is essentially this, is this a good way to create the
site? My concern is that some of the articles will be pretty long (5-20
paragraphs) and I wonder if this will bog down the database. With all of the
basic querying going on, would all of this extra data get in the way? Should I
store the article data seperately somewhere else? Also, if I am on the right
track, would it make a major difference which database I use?

I think I explained that clearly enough.

Thank you in advance/I apologize in advance,
PlastechFish

[The ScareCrow]

Yes, this is the correct way to do it.

No, it will not bog down the db

An enterprise db will always be better (sql server, oracle, ect...), but they
cost money
You could also use ms access
You could also use mySql (free)

But any db will depend upon your site host (if the site is being hosted), as
to what db's they offer

Ken