Gregory, do you have a more detailed study of the architecture of your dna data solution that you would be willing to share... How physically you re storing and manipulating and reporting your data?
randall -----Original Message----- From: "Gregory Lypny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: 1/14/2008 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Many Cards Versus One Card and a List Field Hello everyone, Having started this thread, perhaps I can throw in that the question for me has always been a practical one. If I need to work with and analyze the data in many records and the characteristics of those subsets most of the time (How many in total?, How many are red?, What is the median?), then I build something with a list-like or array-like structure because an individual record or card isn't really relevant; it's the ability to gather them quickly into groups and characterize the group. That's why when I built a program in MetaCard a few years ago to index the human genome database (Unigene) and extract subsets of the 100,000 plus entries, cards never entered the picture. Likewise, when I did the same with 127,000 news releases made by Canada NewsWire and associated the words in the headlines with some 360,000 entries in Webster's Dictionary and the 3,600 firms trading on the S&P/TSX. But when I mostly need to find and study the details of an individual record, then the card model is a good one. However, I'm finding that my need to look at individual details is now almost always accompanied by a need to aggregate and study groups of records, and for databases of, say, 100 records or more, I have to maintain a series of lists anyway. Regards, Gregory _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution