Yes, I think that "programmers" who come with knowledge about how other databases work get tripped up by that concept that a summary type operation needs a record to summarize up into, if you want to use it in subsequent calculations.
But along with that being considered a limitation, it is no doubt also why Quick Base is Quick. ie, under the covers it needs to be super fast to process potentially millions of records and yet have a sub second snappy response time even in a report where thousands of Summary totals need to show in a column in the report, where say the data table being summarized has a million records.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
Your Quick Base Coach
http://QuickBaseCoach.commark.shnier@gmail.com
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