Best practice

Best practice notes and information related to Xbase++
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Steffen F. Pirsig
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Background One of the largest differences in how data is managed between SQL and ISAM is how deleted records are handled. In short: ISAM: does mark a record as deleted. This way it is out of scope. To really get rid of the record you need to do a time consuming PACK operation. SQL: does really...
Andreas Herdt
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Background The PostgreSQL columns of type TEXT and BYTEA allow the storage of large binary data (e.g. PDF documents or images) up to 1GB. If such column types are used in a table their data is accessed like any other data of the record when using the Xbase++ ISAM emulation. With each...