Speed wise using any foreign data source is a lot slower than native R:base,
even using the sconnect between R:base database is slow.
700 tables w/ 130 col in each. I think the relational database police will
come hunt you down???
Troy
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>Thanks Manuel and Castanaro,
>
>Looks like I will probably end up going the DBASE route.
>
>Best regards,
>Mike Young
>
>On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:21:39 -0700, Manuel de Aguiar wrote:
>
>>Hello Mike,
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>Tables/Views/Columns/Rows
>>
>>Create up to 16,000 tables or views
>>Create up to 16,000 columns
>>Create up to 400 columns (fields) per table or view
>>Maximum row (record) lengths of 4096 bytes
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>I found this information at:
>> http://rbase2000.com/Products/rbase.htm
>>Hope this helps,
>>Manuel
>>
>>Michael Young wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anybody know the limits in terms of number of tables and columns
>that
>>> are allowed in RBWIN 6.5++?
>>>
>>> I am looking at developing a database with approximately 700 tables and
>around
>>> 130 columns in each table.
>>>
>>> I realize that I may need to use multiple databases but I have another
>option and
>>> that would be to create DBASE tables since there really is no relationship
>>> between most of the tables and I can just attach them as needed. Does
>anyone
>>> know the speed or other drawbacks to keeping data in a DBASE file?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike Young
>>
Troy Sosamon
Denver Co
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