Thanks everyone for the great feedback regarding client-server
processing in Metacard.
Another issue relevant to constructing a database is robustness. How
robust are Metacard stacks? What sort of recovery tools are available?
For instance, if a card or stack is corrupt, are there tools available
to repair it, or at least extract the data (contents of fields
especially) and delete the offending card?
In 8 years of using Hypercard, I've only had one corrupt card which I
was unable to access. I had to copy and paste each healthy card from the
stack into a new stack to fix the problem. That's not an ideal solution,
but at least HC seems fairly robust. On the other hand, I haven't yet
used any stacks with thousands or tens of thousands of cards.
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Steven D'Aprano
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