On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:27 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
>> His point was since they were offsets and not actual stored values,
>> they were more efficient. Valentina records are fixed length, so to get
>> RecID=99 the software only has to jump to the start of the file + (99 * rec
>> length).
>
> Isn't this how VFP tables are (...fixed)?
Yes - Valentina uses the equivalent of RECNO(). It suffers the same
problem (fatal, IMO) that if you export the data and then import it, all
relations are messed up if there are any deleted records.
-- Ed Leafe
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