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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to All   
   Re: VMS x86-64 database server   
   31 Jul 25 22:49:08   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:16:05 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 7/29/2025 10:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> So ORMs are not scalable?   
   >   
   > It is not a technology limitation.   
   >   
   > It is a functional requirement.   
   >   
   > Nobody want to go to a list page and have it take 30 minutes to load a   
   > billion rows or make a web service call and get a 1 TB response back   
   > with a billion rows.   
      
   They could if it’s an API call, though. You might be streaming the entire   
   response back, in that situation.   
      
   >> How would you handle level breaks?   
   >   
   > It is an ordinary while loop and break works like it does.   
   >   
   > If you need to break out of two loops, then you would need to use a goto   
   > as C# does not support break to labeled loops like Java does.   
      
   By level break, you want to start a new subgroup in the report every time   
   the value in the break field changes. See the example generator function I   
   posted elsewhere, to clarify what I mean.   
      
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