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.
Sent from my iPhone Tom Dodds t...@ix.netcom.com 630.235.2975 On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:12, Jeff Schasny <jscha...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jeff Schasny - Denver, Co, USA > jschasny at gmail dot com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
