All this talk about DataBases

[Mark Smith]

On the other hand (and I'm not actually advocating it, since I've  
never tried it), it would also be possible to build indexes of the  
data that are kept in memory, while keeping the actual data in a  
collection of many stack files which are then loaded and unloaded as  
required.

As I say, I've never tried this (or needed to), but it might be an  
interesting experiment sometime.

Best,

Mark
On 30 May 2007, at 19:48, J. Landman Gay wrote:

>
>> The original data I'm looking at importing is well and truly over  
>> one million records.
>
> I think that pretty much requires an external database. If you dump  
> that much data into a stack I don't think you'll like the results.