Thanks Shawn, Believe you me, I share your reaction to this architecture...I had to spend 2 hours coding a ruby script to get the data into the kludgy form needed for the data import (though I do find that thing kind of fun...but it's not the best use of my time on the job). Fortunately the data limit doesn't seem to be imposed by the apps underlying db schema, only by the importing process, as contacts can be associated with an unlimited number of donations in the program but only 10 donations can be imported at a time. Very few database apps I've used seem to be free from at least a few architectural or interface flaws such as this one, and so often it seems one needs to reach a compromise in order to settle on a reasonably priced piece of software with an intuitive, powerful interface and decent engineering. Still, though, I wonder if there's way to solve this problem using straight SQL.
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