I get the picture. It is like a "Blank slate, waiting to be drawn upon."
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From: Linke, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: Can a Palm database have more than one field per record?
> > 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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