All this talk about DataBases

[Scott Kane]

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> Mac OS X. It was very fast loading the text file. But each record was 
> fairly small, so 40,000 of them wasn't as large as one might think. It was 
> measured in megs rather than gigs, but I don't remember exactly how big it 
> was.

The original data I'm looking at importing is well and truly over one 
million records.  Naturally I don't expect to bring this into *any* single 
file format complete and would be breaking it down into to sub categories of 
sub categories.  The text files on a *nix system take around 3 Gig unpacked. 
On Windows this is increased to a factor of four (70% of which is slack 
space).  So I'm indeed valuing the input I'm seeing here from HC etc vets.

Scott Kane
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