Give Up and Use Tables
Sometimes there's just no other way, and you should just Give Up and Use Tables
Why I love ColdFusion
Because my first use of the ColdFusion AutoSuggest control took me 10 minutes to implement. I was doing a cfselect with a bind to load all cities in a state. Unfortunately, with more than 5,000 cities in some states the application was getting seriously bogged down with huge asynchronous http responses in the background.
Ten minutes later I have a solution in production and customers are happy.
Ad-hoc database change monitoring
Gonna have to give this a try soon...
arc90 lab : tools : SqlWatcher: Ad-hoc database change monitoring