David Fedor wrote:
> >For this application, stay away from the File Streaming API. It uses
> >record databases
> >as it's underlying representation. All the record sizes are fixed at 1024
> >bytes (not
> >officially stated anywhere, subject to change, yadayada).
>
> Huh? Why would this be relevant? It is like saying "don't use that hard
> drive; it uses sectors of 2048 bytes each; that's no good for your app"...
> who cares what the physical media's attributes are, if it doesn't affect
> the higher-level view of the data?
Need to get off the meds (or ask for more, I dunno).
case #1: he wants to make a resource database
File Streaming is not appropriate; it uses a record database
case #2: he wants to make a record database
File Streaming may not be appropriate; the record size is fixed.
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