On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Holger Klawitter wrote: > - a category is just a set of 4 flags in the record header. One could > view that as some kind of (virtually) indexed column, with a dynamic > enum (16 values max) as column type.
Or as a "type column". I'm using categories in one project to separate groups of similarly encoded records in a single database, so I effectively get up to 16 databases combined into one. That is, as long as you don't plan to support standard user-defined categories in a database... those 2 concepts walk all over each other. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Smith // avalon73 at arthurian dot nu // http://www.arthurian.nu/ Software Developer // Gamer // Webmaster // System Administrator "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
