database questions

[Mark Brownell]

Hi Alex,

Is there a stack somewhere that illustrates this kind of database for 
larger data sets?

Mark

On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 10:03  AM, Alex Rice wrote:

>
> On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 03:59  PM, Alex Rice wrote:
>> function dataField pKey
>>   put the customProperties of stack kDataStack into tData
> ...
>>   However I haven't needed to do much optimization yet though. I 
>> suspect that dataField(key) function above could be written better.
>>
>
> (following up own post)
>
> It seems that avoiding a copy of the custom property array speeds 
> things up quite a bit for larger data sets.
>
> function dataField pKey
>   put the db_state["databaseID"] of stack kDataStack into tDB
>   put sessionID() , pKey , "value" into tFilter
>   put format("the %s[\"%s\"] of stack \"%s\"", tDB, tFilter, 
> kDataStack) into tx
>   return value(tx)
>  end dataField
>
> on setDataField pKey, pValue
>   put the db_state["databaseID"] of stack kDataStack into tDB
>   put sessionID() , pKey , "value" into tFilter
>   put format("set the %s[\"%s\"] of stack \"%s\" to pValue", \
>       tDB, tFilter, kDataStack) into tx
>   do tx
> end setDataField
>
>
> Alex Rice,