What's more efficient - storing logs in sql database or files?

Question

I have few scripts loaded by cron quite often. Right now I don\'t store any logs, so if any script fails to load, I won\'t know it till I see results - and even when I notic

Answer 1

Error logging is best limited to files in my opinion, because if there is a problem with the database, you can still log that. Obviously that's not an option if your error logging requires a connection to the database!

What I will also say however, is that general logging is something I leave within the database, however this only applies if you are doing lots of logging for audit trails etc.