OpenEuphoria

Re: onKeyPress()

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 06, 2001
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Jonas, I would like to look at your OE program. There's a lot of EU stuff I
need to learn... on stability of EU i'll agree also at this point. I've not
run into anything that does not work correctly...although sometimes i can't
figure out what I did wrong...It won't let you get away with anything!!

..george

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Temple" <jktemple at yhti.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: onKeyPress()


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> George,
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> See my replies in the body of the e-mail:
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> George Walters wrote:
> > Rob, and Jonas, in reading your responses there is a concern I have from
> > both of your approaches, namely that every time a select_table() is
> > performed the entire file has to be read.
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> I don't THINK the entire table has to be read on a select_table.  I say
> THINK because I can't be 100% sure about that.  Rob, could you clarify?
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> > This wouldn't  seem to support any
> > substantial software application. The 22 files I've mentioned for an
> > 'order
> > entry' program represent 20-100Mbytes of data, when you consider 3-5k
> > customers, 50k inventory, 2+ stocking locations... etc. Jonas, if this
> > is
> > happening on your file server just to retreive one record from several
> > files, I don't see how it could support multiple users. The server would
> > be
> > scanning the same files front to end over and over...
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> The server does support multiple users.   I have been seeing decent
> response times in data retrieval and I have in mind a couple of
> enhancements to speed up the retrieval process.
>
> That being stated let me also say that EDS is a simple database.  It
> certainly cannot (at this point) compete with commercial databases
> (SQLServer, Oracle, DB/2, Access, etc.).  Not that I want to discourage
> you from using EDS/Net but if you're doing a major development as you're
> describing you might want to look at other alternatives (you might want
> to also look at Matt Lewis' ODBC library in the archive).  And I suggest
> looking at alternatives for one major reason...EDS does not support
> indexes.  If you're creating customer and product databases you will
> certainly want to provide searches over those databases (my name,
> address, product description, etc) and unfortunately EDS just cannot do
> that at this time (I have printed database.e and have decided to just do
> it myself...if I only had the time).
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> If you're still serious about it I can send you privately a VERY simple
> order entry app I'm working on.  It uses EDS/Net and it will support
> multiple users.  Just let me know.
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> I think you're discovering what I did about Euphoria...you can generate
> business apps relatively quickly and be able to support those apps down
> the line.  And it won't crash your system!
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> Good luck.
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> Jonas
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