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[Richard Gaskin]

> Scott Raney used to recommend that stacks not go above
 > 3-5,000 cards or so before being moved to a more formal
 > database. That isn't a hard number, just a suggestion.

That's predicated on the assumption that you're using a stack as a flat 
table.  If you use arrays or tab-delimited chunks in custom properties 
you can safely exceed that by many times; I've been working with a data 
set here of about 50,000 records in a simple list, and my WebMerge 
product processes exported databases as tab-delimited text quickly -- we 
have some customers processing 100,000 records without a hitch.

Of course, keep in mind it's all RAM-based so if your records are large 
you may get tight on memory.  But like the old Panaroma database product 
shows, RAM-based databases can be viable in many circumstances.

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