Small. Fast. Reliable.
Choose any three.
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  NOTE: There is a difference between a database created with an empty string and a database created with string ":memory:"! For the one, created with "" there exists a temp file in the temp-folder under Windows. The performance of the ":memory:"-database is much better than that of the ""-database.
  
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+ 2006-02-22: Is there a way to read a database into memory, perform operations on the in-memory copy, and then commit those changes back out to the hard copy?  I suspect it has something to do with transactions?  My objective is to vastly reduce the disk I/O operations.
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  2006-02-20: A simple TCL-Implementation for loading a DB into memory:
  
  proc loadDB {dbhandle filename} {