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From: "Karen Rhodes" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Data set question -- I wanna lump
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:55:19 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <20064310325.283444@Terry3>


On 3 Apr 2006 at 10:03, Terry Reigel wrote:

> if you do any customization of Tag Type, Source
> Types, Styles, etc., you have repeat them in each
> Data Set - there is no easy way to copy them.


Now there's one of the best arguments yet that I've
seen for putting everyone all in the same bin.


> In my view, the only reasons to keep separate data
> sets are:
> 1) To separate imported data so you can examine
> it (the primary reason for the existence of separate
> data sets, I believe)


Yes, that much I've grasped. <smile>


> 2) You have so much data that it bogs down
> your computer (think 100,000+ people), in which
> case you need separate projects, not
> separate data sets


That was a consideration with my old set up (in
computer terms, it was ready for Antiques Roadshow!)
But with the new computer that I bought (as
components) and my husband put together for me, I
can probably handle a very huge project. TMG is one
of the reasons I put a 160 gigabyte hard drive, 1
gigabyte of RAM, and 1800 MHz AMD Sempron chip,
and what I call a "muscular" motherboard on this thing!
<grin> (The other reason is games!)


Thanks for the discussion. Much appreciated!

Karen Rhodes

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