My Team is implementing a Sorted Binary Search on a database of 100,000
records.
This means that there is no more than 18 lookups before determining
whether a record exists.
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> I like the idea denormalize database for Palm. Since these tables are
> not
> linked by keys, it requires reading data from each Palm database until
> the
> matching key is found. This greatly affects the performance.
>
> There should be some Palm programmers who write multi-database
> applicaitons.
> How do you handle the data linking?
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>
> -Elizabeth
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> You don't have to redesign the database into one table. However, keep
> in
> mind that even if you use several databases on the palm (1 for each
> table),
> it's not relational, so you can't do joins or indices very easily. It
> seems
> best to keep databases at lease somewhat denormalized for performance
> reasons on the palm.
>
> Zoltan
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> > Hi All,
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> > I am writing an application using data from 15 database tables
> > (Oracle). It
> > looks like a typical Palm application uses one table. Should I
> > redesign the
> > database to combine some tables? Thanks.
> >
> >
> > -Elizabeth
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