Efficient use of text-containing field

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/6/05 3:58 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> Ah ha! Very cool.  Good trick to know.  I'll have to think some more about
> what could be done with calculated fields.  I clearly haven't given them
> sufficient consideration.  But since I'm almost always more concerned with
> speed over space they aren't inherently appealing since they "sound"
> expensive :)

All depend on task.

Exists 2 kinds of dbs.

1) dbs which need fast Add/Remove/Update
2) which need fast SEARCH.

I think 80% of dbs are of kind 2.
I.e. E.g. Users 100 times do search and one time modification.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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[I feel the need: the need for speed]