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I have been working on a series of stacks to help a physician manage 
patient data regarding cholesterols and other lipids. The stack files 
patient info and also has a knowledge based expert system built into it. 
There are about fifty fields on each card. My problem is that I am 
contemplating using this stack for in the neighborhood of 20,000 records. 
I will have it on a file server with two Mac terminals. I've been told 
that using Hypercard with that many records will bog down and be 
unacceptably slow. I'm therefore thinking about using another data base 
to store the data, then import the info into the many Hypercard fields 
and useHypercard as the front end interface. So, each time I pull up a 
patient from Hypercard, I need to open another database file, import the 
data into the fields. Then after updating the Hypercard record, I need to 
export the data into the data base. Sounds easy. But, I have almost no 
experience with such operations and I've run into trouble. My questions, 
initially, are: any one have a suggestion about an appropriate data base 
to use, and anyone know of a good reference(s) which discusses the 
importing/exporting problem in depth? (I've read the stuff in Goodman 
which was a start but not sufficient). Thanks.



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