All this talk about DataBases

[Peter Alcibiades]

"And think about it:  since every Rev object has multiple property sets, 
and a stack can have any number of cards, and cards can have groups, 
etc. -- all this means you can have richly hierarchically-ordered data 
sets using just custom properties.   Hierarchies reflect much of the 
world's taxonomy, and were not gracefully done with HC."

Guys, if this is such a great feature of Revolution  - and I believe it, the 
description is suggestive, promising, interesting  -  possibly someone with 
the good of the platform at heart should consider writing a tutorial and 
example on it?  

Richard speaks with authority and has done the work to prove it.  But trying 
to do it with just this as a guide just looks like hours of frustration 
trying to make something work that one has only a sketchy idea of.

Sqlite may well be overkill for what DS called the 'inventive user', and 
Python probably still more so.  But you can connect to sqlite from Python 
using the wrappers in two lines.  You can make yourself a one table sqlite 
database in 20 seconds using the sqlitebrowser gui.  And its all documented.  
Your inventive user doesn't end up sitting there for hours trying one thing 
after another struggling with ODBC, the shell, iODBC, DSN...and so on.   He 
just looks it up, does it, and it works....  

Yes, he still has to learn Python.  Believe me, there are times when that can 
seem like it would be light relief!

Just a thought,

Peter