RE: Something lighter than a database file . . .

Another vote for user indexes. 

Rick

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> Subject: Something lighter than a database file . . .
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> Would anybody have any suggestions for something that
> would:
>
> 1. Be lighter than a temporary database file, preferably
> living in memory, instead of on disk, and having less
> overhead than a file, 2. Yet still be capable of expanding to
> contain whatever data records are put into it, 3. While
> rejecting duplicate records?
>
> We've got a server job that turns a single client request for
> a sort of "mass dump" (cf. a SysEx dump in MIDI) into a bunch
> of, shall I say, "simulated client requests,"
> storing them in a database file in QTEMP. The simulated
> requests then run as a batch, with the results sent back to
> the client as a single response. It's an improvement over
> having the client generate the whole list of requests as if
> they were being sent interactively, but we have reason to
> believe the database file is bottlenecking the process.
>
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