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From: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Arrays in dBASE
Message-ID: <5134@well.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 01:23:11 GMT
References: <6760@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <6760@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
> ...a neater solution. An array is a sort of
>table, so it can be stored in a database with a single (or for
>that matter multidimensional arrays can be handled, too) field.
>
Yes, you can always trade memory structures for file structures if your
file handling system is up to it (and d:Base's is), but what you really
loose in having to do this is performance!