Jim, ><sigh again> I'm obviously not very good at making a point clearly. > >> Some do, some don't. > ><sigh> And didn't I say that from the start?
I thought you said from the start that large databases were never sensible on a PDA, and any customer who requested it needed re-education. In reviewing the thread, perhaps I read too much into your reply. Mea culpa. >Sometimes >you can't avoid it, which is when I start recommending our customers use >the many logical records in one physical record technique. I fully agree, and it is the same technique I use and recommend. My whole contention is that it *can* be sensible to have large databases, although it may be the exception rather than the norm. And you don't have to have long sync times to accomplish it. As long as you are not contending the customer is always wrong if they want a large database, then I can agree the decision can be made on a case by case basis. While the application can get marginally more complex, it is not a significant issue because you just encapsulate the pseudo-"record" handling behind some functions where it processes a logical subset of a physical record. Doug -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
