Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Large Scale DataBase
Message-ID: <660@stech.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 11:02:14 GMT
References: <52305GFX@PSUVM>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Lines: 29

in article <52305GFX@PSUVM>, GFX@PSUVM.BITNET says:
> 
> We use a rather large database (500,000 + records) holding  a few
> variables ( 25 +/-) related to industrial establishments.  We manage
> it with SAS on an IBM mainframe, but are curious as to whether such
> a dataBase could be installed in an HyperCard environment to provide
> interactive queries (a rarity, but nonetheless...)  Our major motive
> in doing so would be to take advantage of the (apparently) very fast
> searching capabilities of HyperCard.  (in most instances, interactive
> users do not have the establishment ID number, and therefore must resort
> to subString searches to locate the appropriate records.  VERY inefficient
> at the present time)

Considering th size of your database, Hypercard would probably be a disaster.
It just wasn't created to manage that much data. I would suggest using one
of the faster Mac DBMSs to create an application. FoxBase would probably
be a good choice. It's very fast, and relatively easy to use.

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop
BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY

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