Re: sorting large numbers of large records

["Matthew Heaney" <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:1059425531.850814@master.nyc.kbcfp.com...
> John R. Strohm wrote:
> > Incidentally, depending on your system, it might be to your advantage to
> > maintain TWO datafiles: one big one that is sorted, and one little one
that
> > isn't, but contains things that have been modified recently.
>
> If he reaches this point, the OP might just want to
> move to a real database, where problems like this
> havel already been dealt with.
>

The indexed i/o components I wrote will probably meet his needs.  I'm not
sure he really needs a full-blown database.

http://www.adapower.com/reuse/indexed_io.html

See also the Charles library for internal sorting methods:

http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles

-Matt