[Tutor] pointers or references to variables or sub-sets of variables query.

[Alan Gauld]

On 07/07/2019 09:19, David L Neil wrote:
> First-off, it has to be said that "100's of elements" suggests using an 
> RDBMS - particularly if 'age' (eg 23 and 99) is not the only likely 
> selection mechanism.

Multiple selection mechanisms might suggest an RDBMS but hundreds of
items is chickenfeed and an RDBMS would be overkill for such small
numbers, if volume was the only criteria. Millions of items would
certainly warrant such an approach but nowadays holding 10's of
thousands of items in memory is entirely reasonable.

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