> I recently had a client that wanted a report that pulled from an enormous > transactional based file. I offered to create an index to improve > performance, but they declined saying that there were currently > using Excel and manual data entry to create the same report at the > end of the month, and that having it run in 15 minutes instead of 10 > seconds was acceptable. So I just wrote it with a simple SELECT > and it takes 15 minutes and they're happy as heck that it takes 15 > minutes instead of the two days it used to take them to do it in Excel.
We are in the midst of converting from D3 to UniData on AIX (RS/6000 M80). I just tested an inventory select that takes nearly two hours on D3. It finished in under 8 minutes on UniData. This involves selecting about 30,000 records from a file of nearly 800,000 VERY large records, about 60% of them over 2K, i.e. "pointer items" on D3. That's a pretty dramatic improvement. =========================================================== Norman Morgan <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> http://www.brake.com =========================================================== Boyd, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe -- Attorneys at Law =========================================================== -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
