To design and develop a database application to keep up with the way people want (and need) data to be accessed, DataPerfect simply cannot keep up with the demand. The only restrictions on any program of this type should be on the machine side, e.g., RAM and hard drive capacity. Otherwise, the sky should be the limit. Don't get me wrong, during the early 90s I absolutely adored this product. And even as MS Access and Borland's Paradox were gaining traction, I stuck to WP's database offering. But it didn't take too much longer before I realized that once it was officially abandoned (and likewise its support was ended), I turned to a more useful database. Jerome R. Kinderman Lodi, California [email protected]
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Pollard Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 5:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Maximum number of fields in single panel Rich Re additional limits, you can have a maximum of 99 panels - I would love to have more - and the text field limit is now 64K Robert 2009/9/15 Rich Bragonje <[email protected]> Thanks Colin, <snip> Ralph and Robert, Thanks, as I had not counted any possible links. I will have a link in the parent panel to the rosette panel, any usually have a reverse link back to the parent. Without any links, I have 123 fields, so maybe I can skate. Hi Joe, I agree, and I think that I tried to do that at one time. I don't remember what the result was. May have to dig around to see what I can find. One question that still needs to be answered, with the various updates that Lew has given us, what are the current capacities, as was listed in Appendix E, in the DP2.3 manual? DP 2.3 Manual, c. 1992 Data file size 2 billion bytes Records per file 16 million Index entries per data file 16 million Index size 2 billion bytes Indexes per panel 200 Fields per record 80 now 125 Files (Panels) per database 80 Report variables per report 255 Reports per database 169 Alphanumeric field size 78 characters Numeric field size 14 digits Text field size 32,000 characters Thanks folks, Rich -- Robert Pollard Information Habitat: Where Information Lives http://habitat.igc.org/ [email protected] 1.212.864.3156 http://friendfeed.com/climatechange3
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