My experience with the Pick O/S - database of nearly 40 years has taught me 
that once you truly understand it's power you stop trying to change it.

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Tom Dodds
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On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:12, Jeff Schasny <[email protected]> wrote:

> My thoughts exactly. We have a perfectly good database here, why not use it. 
> Storing data in a dictionary has always been a bad idea, even the ubiquitous 
> "next.available" record key.
> 
> 
> David A. Green wrote:
>> All this talk about using the Dictionary item to store extra data has
>> prompted this post.
>> 
>> I realize in the past when the limit to the number of Opened Files in a
>> Basic program was a programming challenge, that doing creative data storage
>> might have been an necessity.  But I would like to suggest we leave the
>> Dictionary alone, let the database use it the way it wants to and let us
>> create our own storage device for dictionary related data.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> David A. Green
>> (480) 813-1725
>> DAG Consulting
>> 
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