A related question: I have a table of towns that has ~20,000 records. The dataset I need has the record ID, town name, a memo field (usually empty), and fields holding an index into other tables (township, county, state, country). In my form I have a select field to pick the town. I don't want to populate that with 20,000 options so I have a way for the user to pare down the possibilities based on the first letter of the town name. I then make an ajax call and use jquery/javascript to populate the select field options.
Which is better: run a query of the table at the top of the application and store the results in an APPLICATION variable, then do a query of queries for each subset, or just query the table directly for each subset? My initial thinking is the former but now I'm wondering. I do know the first option runs quickly, returning about 300 records for "M" and populating the select field in 1-2 seconds (I haven't actually timed it, and that's lightning fast for most users of the app). Larry Stephens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:353795 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
