Database saved as custom property

Andre Garzia soapdog at mac.com
Mon Jun 6 12:01:41 EDT 2005


If I had 2GB of data to work and the world was mine to code, I'd go 
altSQLite, if I had the money I'd pump in lot's of RAM and create a 
ramdisk big enought to fit the db, the access would be fast. (I just 
happen to like ramdisks...)


cheers
andre

On Jun 6, 2005, at 12:42 PM, MisterX wrote:

> Guys, is this going somewhere?
>
> Custom props, card objects, stacks, even sql has limits.
>
> Any 2GBs of anything can be split into smaller components!
>
> Smaller components are de facto faster to access - i'll let
> you do the algebra (or diff equ's if you prefer)...
>
> Put all your eggs in one basket and you know what happens
> eventually... No revolutionary ideas i can think of!
>
> To manage 10000 troops is the same as managing a few,
> It's a question of order and organization.
>
> cheers
> Xavier
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>> Dennis Brown
>> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 17:35
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: Re: Database saved as custom property
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I believe we are still limited to about 2GB of total stack
>> size at present according to recent posts.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
>>
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>>
>>>> on 6/6/05 1:11 pm,  Signe Marie Sanne wrote :
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Since someone a week ago said he had not ventured into custom
>>>> properties, I have uploaded a very simple stack which
>> shows how you
>>>> make a small archive stack and save it as a custom
>> property, all with
>>>> just one card. On RevOnLine you will find it under my user name
>>>> "sms", or under Categories
>>>> -->Programming. Its name is CustPropDatabase.
>>>>
>>>> Marvellous! Now it is not so frightening... I need to think hard
>>>> about this solution - are there any serious size limitations?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, nothing to worry about, i think ;-)
>>>
>>> You can have upt ot 4 GB of custom properties per object!
>>> Each of them can hold up to 4 GB of characters...
>>>
>>> Only drawback: A stack can only be up to 4 GB in size ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>> If it could replace 1000
>>>> cards, some containing c. 100k text, it would be FAST...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Klaus Major
>>> klaus at major-k.de
>>> http://www.major-k.de
>>>
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