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[Richard Gaskin]

Tom wrote:

> On Feb 23, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> > Scott Raney used to recommend that stacks not go above
>> > 3-5,000 cards or so before being moved to a more formal
>> > database. That isn't a hard number, just a suggestion.
>>
>> That's predicated on the assumption that you're using a 
 >> stack as a flat table.  If you use arrays or tab-delimited
 >> chunks in custom properties you can safely exceed that by
 >> many times; I've been working with a data set here of
 >> about 50,000 records in a simple list, and my WebMerge
 >> product processes exported databases as tab-delimited text
 >> quickly -- we have some customers processing 100,000
 >> records without a hitch.
>>
>> Of course, keep in mind it's all RAM-based so if your
 >> records are large you may get tight on memory.  But
 >> like the old Panaroma database product shows, RAM-based
 >> databases can be viable in many circumstances.
>
> I am working on an addition to Panorama at the moment and
 > before now had never heard of it. When I saw your reference
 > below I was floored.
> 
> Do you know anything else about Panorama?

Very little.

> I need to emulate a demo where it appears to interact
 > with Panorama. It does not actually have to but I need
 > it to look like it is.
> I was going to do this in Rev with screen shots of Panorama
 > mixed with Rev fields to show how our addition would work
 > if included.
> Are Pano and Rev related at all???

Only in as much as their data is RAM-based rather than paged from disk. 
  No other connection that I know of.

> I don't really have time to learn Pano to do the demo from within it.
> I saw the scripting in Pano and it looked different than Rev.
> what are your thoughts??

Why interact between the two?  If Panorama is no longer viable for the 
project it's being used on could it just be moved to Rev?

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