#Xbase database software
30-May-93 17:03:21
Sb: #49481-#Xbase database software
Fm: John Eakin 70363,411
To: Philip A. Turner 72650,74
Phillip,
RQBE is Relational Query By Example. Which is another way of saying menu
driven searches.
Linked searches with FoxPro on CD are pretty slow. All my databases are flat
files. Which in most cases are no problem with all the available space on CD.
As an experiment I linked a couple of files on CD and did a very simple single
field search which took 115 seconds to come back. The same search on CD but
not linked to another file took 0.5 seconds. Of course a lot of the
performance depends on database design. But I would certainly avoid relational
files if at all possible.
Regards,
John