filemaker pro 6

[jeepman]

what is the database capacity or size of version 6.0?

[Søren Dyhr]

Do you have any suggestions to a measurement scale?

It's is obviously a matter of the normalization that have taken place. Solutions that havn't even been through 1NF does put much more strain on the capasity ...on the other hand doesn't an fully normalized solution exist but has to depend on the way the data actually could be stored

...filemaker has a special thing called calc'fields that kind of makes sence for 2NF, because it's the userinterface that trigs the resolving of such calc's - so pulling the scrollbar initiate a series of calculations that rested awaiting a trigging.

So a simple answer isn't existing, since the more foolish you store your data the less seems the datacapacity to be ...but this is wrong - behaving wisely makes the borders seem elsewhere.

You question is more or less asking - which is highest the Impire State Building or the buzz you get from loud Rock'n'roll music???

--sd

[Ender]

Assuming jeepman is talking about MB, I'd say performance seems to degrade when a file gets over 300MB. Though maybe performance is more a function of the number of records.

[Fenton]

If you mean "maximum size" it's 2 GB. And, if you exceed that size the first part of your file will be overwritten without warning, turning the entire file into unusable garbage (or so I've heard). There is a Status(CurrentFileSize) function. If you think it's possible to get that large, you'd best test and stop it before it happens (hard to do). I imagine speed will become an issue before that. Version 7's limit is very high, 8 TB (terrabytes).