Bob and Karen It seems when I first went from 6.5 to 7.5 I used a regular table with Indexes. But I switched to Temp tables thinking it would be safer is 2 workstations were doing the same EEP. It has been a long time and in the server you can not tell any difference.
There are only 3-5 rows each time. These offices waited for several updates of mine so I can't be sure which of my "improvements" caused this <g> Scratch is Local TMP I have tried Drop and Project but they say it is still slow DROP TABLE tran_spd PROJECT TEMP tran_spd FROM tran_hist USING * + WHERE custnum = .vcust AND tr_type = 1 AND tr_date = .vmaxdate EDIT USING spdyov2 + WHERE tr_type = 1 AND custnum = .vcust CAPTION .vcap I need to find 2 slow computers to network to make it easier to test this Thanks Marc From: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:10 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Workstation speed Marc, I would not use Delete Rows from a temp table when wanting to remove all rows. This is much slower if there are any number of rows to delete. Instead try, Drop table Tran_spd Project temp Tran_Spd from (Permanent empty table name of same column structure) using all or If Speedov has the same column names, skip the insert and Project temp Tran_Spd from Speedov using (column list) where...... This may prove even faster yet. However, note that a lock will be placed on Speedov if you use the project from it. Otherwise project using Where limit = 0 and then use the Insert if a lock on the table would be problematic. You do not say how many records are being inserted at a time. You do not show building an index on your temp table. I normally do not use indexes on temp tables unless there is a lot of data and of a type that an index would help with. If you have indexes and are using the Delete Rows command, that will definitely be slower as it has to update all the indexes as well. As Karen stated, make sure your temp settings are local. -Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 2:53:10 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Workstation speed Marc: Have you tried using a permanent table in 7.5 to see if it's faster than using the temp table? And if you're using temp tables, make sure your scratch setting is to a local drive (like SET SCRATCH C:\TEMP) so that temp table information is kept local rather than traveling through the network. Karen This is the second office that has brought up the issue of Rbase getting slower as the day wears on. This tech is a certified network guy so I assume the network is OK, new computers 1 gig switches ... My old code used a regular table and I would just delete rows .....but I never heard a complaint on the speed -- tran_spd is a temp table that is created on start of the main menu DELETE ROWS FROM tran_spd -- APPEND .... using append instead of insert does not seem to make any difference INSERT + INTO tran_spd (custnum,date_con,tr_date,tr_type,ch_code,ch_price,+ ptest,dig_ch,memo,treat_dr,inscomp,inshold,modf1,modf2,modf3,+ modf4 ) SELECT custnum,date_con,tr_date,tr_type,ch_code,ch_price,+ ptest, dig_ch,memo,treat_dr,inscomp,inshold,modf1,modf2,modf3,+ modf4 FROM speedov WHERE custnum = .vaptcust EDIT USING spdyov2 + WHERE tr_type = 1 AND custnum = .vcust CAPTION .vcap Then then click a button to Save or append these charges to another table then go back to this same EEP again. Even if I drop Temp tab and Project Temp tab is not faster I think is it my program logic not 7.5, but my old permanent table in 6.5 was faster than the temp table in 7.5 Why would using Temp table be slower? Marc
