Think of it like an Ice Cream Truck. You can't consume 35,000 Ice Creams all at once, so grab an armful at a time and work on those.
Since your users' screen will only accommodate 20-100 items at a time, work with 20-100 data items at a time. Find out how your database makes a subset available, MySQL uses "LIMIT" statement. Then you have fine points of database access, do you need your selection copied to a TEMP file to the list? Yesterday I was working with an MySQL file of 43,000 items that SELECTed my 4,000 needed items immediately, but then took 12-15 seconds for the Flash player to load them into a Flex Datagrid. A set of 100 of those items loaded in less than a second into a Flex Datagrid. - Alan Gruskoff --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "David C. Moody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the best way to handle a large dataset?? I'm using AMFPHP. I > need to display a datagrid that the user can then use to choose an > entry to work on. > > The problem is this database has approximately 35,000 entries in it. > > I keep getting memory size exhausted errors from PHP. > > So I need a way to load the datagrid dynamically or page the datagrid. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > -David >