Regarding installation time you should make sure not to create too many
records.
This means that you should concatanate several of your images into one
record and handle yourself the
real record separation.
This approach made a huge difference in the database I am working with
(japanese dictionaries and kanji definititions) for
info are largest db (out of the box) is 9mo.
Benoit Cerrina
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are starting a project that we want to contain a large number of images in a reference
database. It would need one PDB file containing over 8,000 JPEG images, each around 2-3kb
a piece. So, this makes for a very large file. "Large" is, of course, a
relative term. It's prohibitively large for someone without a memory card, but for
someone with a 128MB or larger memory card, it's no big deal. However, it also could be
prohibitively large for people who want to download the database from the Internet and
wait for the (painfully slow) HotSync process to transfer the bloated file to their
device.
What I'm looking for are some successful projects that may have been in a
similar situation. Are there commercial packages out there that have such
severe memory requirements (the only ones I could find were media players where
you pick and choose individual multimedia files to copy to your card -- not
actual packages where the requirements out of the box were very large).
Has anyway had any experience with this? Any horror stories? Success stories?
Pointers?
At this point we are thinking the size itself isn't too bad (i.e. most people
have large enough memory cards), but we are worried about installation time. We
are wondering if it would make sense to market the product on a pre-installed
memory card rather than a download off the Internet.
I would appreciate any feedback. TIA.
David
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