All this talk about DataBases

Rob Cozens rcozens at pon.net
Wed May 30 12:32:06 EDT 2007


Richard, et al:

>Why bother with the overhead of storing the data in fields on cards, 
>when you can easily parse item and line chunks of a single block of 
>data so very efficiently?

This is basically how SDB handles non-binary data.  The field 
delimiter character for each record type is specified by the developer.

Rob 




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