Thanks Kevin: I get blasted enough in these forums. I'm certainly no newbie but often deal with some misunderstandings surrounding my posts and replies.
I use sequential files in and out of MV whenever they are the right choice. Thanks Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:20 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Universe vs. Unidata > >I was wonderin' what you meant! Sequential access *does* still have > it's place in today's random access heavy world. > > Man, I really should have had my coffee before responding to Mark > today. The only thing worse than responding in haste is responding > inaccurately, and even with best intents for that mistake I am truly > sorry. > > I completely agree, sequential access has a very prominent place in > today's random access world. I'm amazed at the crazy things people do > to try to get around sequential access like magnificently dimensioned > arrays, benchmarking <-1> against INSERT(..), etc., when really if the > task is to export an amount of data in some kind of format, sequential > files are simply the best first choice. > > When someone says "oh, I'll never output that MUCH data", a big red > flag goes up in my mind. Certainly we can code for what we anticipate > today, but if we do not anticipate for what will happen six months > from now, the end result will not be very complimentary. > > -Kevin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.PrecisOnline.com > > ** Check out scheduled Connect! training courses at > http://www.PrecisOnline.com/train.html. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
