Re: DBMS library in Euphoria
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:56:47 -0600, Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET> wrote:
>Ewwwww,, i *know* Eu can be put to better use than fixed length fields,
>fixed field count per record, and fixed types in it! I need real random
>access, variable length everything, and fields which may or may not be
>there, which is why i have been using an XML-type of DB for years. If i
>don't put anything in a particular record's field, that field doesn't exist
>in that record; and if i put in a megabyte in the same field in the next
>record, that's ok too. Nesting anything into anything else is not a problem.
>Using the right tags, the DB looks nice in an HTML browser, and it's
>editable in any text editor. Naturally, the more the data is optimised for
>speed or size, the less human readable it becomes, but that is just one more
>choice you have in your program as to how you save the data and spec the
>tags and do the type checking.
>
>Kat
And how were we, that is me and the frog in my pocket, going to dependably
index this lovely structure that you have built. Display it, yes...linearly
search
it, probably...but index and access linked records...that can be done with
this type of record, but for many reasons technical and some not so
technical indexed access is a bear. If you have solved it, I am interested. I
believe that a company called Progressive or some such had out a fully
programmable database that fit the description of what you have laid out, but
it was fairly slow, questionably scalable and quite expensive. Lead on.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
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