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- From: alane@wozzle.linet.org (J. Alan Eldridge)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help needed on Data Structure
- Message-ID: <P956wB3w165w@wozzle.linet.org>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 16:06:00 GMT
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- ashafie@acsu.buffalo.edu (Afshin Shafie) writes:
-
- > I want to write a program (database) in C that will run on SunOS 4.1.2.
- > There will be about 4 fields for each entry and each field could be a
- > search field. There is about 10 MB of data, so speed is very important.
- > The data will be mostly characters. So far, the few books that I was able
- > to get my hands on don't say much about implementation of databases.
- >
- > If you could point me to a book or give me some hints/suggestions on
- > what data structure to use for a problem like this, I would really
- > apreciate it.
-
- Have you considered that there a load of public-domain, freeware, and
- shareware database packages out there already, in C source code, that
- you could just grab and use? Unless you are going for the learning
- experience, I'd investigate that avenue and get on with the job.
-
- (Well at least that's what I'd do.)
-
- alane@wozzle.linet.org (J. Alan Eldridge)
- Fido: The University of Walamaloo 1:272/38.473
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