> da-ta-base - Computer Science n. also data base 1. A
> collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and
> retrieval.
Umm, I must have completely missed the API functions and special PalmOS
features that support "ease and speed of search and retrieval" of PalmOS
data. You can't possibly refer to the simple Find action code or
DmQueryRecord().
If developers read about a database model in PalmOS, they usually don't look
it up in the American Heritage English Dictionary but rather think of
primary/secondary key fields, indexes and all the other features of a
standard RDBMS.
Roger's statement is correct and appropriate. PalmOS storage is just a very
simple flat file system. Totally sufficient for the original intended use as
a calendar and personal address book with a few 1,000 records in 512 KB of
memory, but a little bit awkward for business applications on the current 8
MB devices.
Regards,
Andreas
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