Thanks to those who replied. 1) we have tools to easily edit dictionaries of any size (one of the few benefits of Datatel/ Ellucian)
2) we have tools to monitor and resize dictionaries just like any other file ( also a Datatel benefit) It's more of a general question about performance. We import data from the Common Application which has almost 2000 data attributes per person. Thus having a large DICT isn't sloppy or lazy work on our end, it's a necessity of the data. Thus the question is better stated as: Is unidata performance better if we stuff all 2000 elements in a single DICT or break the data into multiple (eg: 4) files of 500 elements each? When we work with this data we need all 2000 elements so is reading 4 or 5 separate tables any more efficient than reading a single large table of 2000 elements? Jeffrey Butera, PhD Associate Director for Application and Web Services Information Technology Hampshire College 413-559-5556 On Aug 6, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Doug Averch <dave...@u2logic.com> wrote: > Hi Jeffery: > > We have a client with 6,000 dictionaries items and they have no performance > problems If the dictionary is sized correctly, there generally is no > performance hit. However, editing it with some tools is a pain because it > takes quite a long time to read them. > > Regards, > Doug > www.u2logic.com > "XLr8Dictionary Editor for large dictionary editing" > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:08 PM, jeffrey Butera <jbut...@hampshire.edu>wrote: > >> I'm curious how large of a DICTionary some of you have worked with and, in >> particular, how very large DICTs can adversely affect applications. >> >> We have a DICT approaching 1500 data elements (no idescs) - which is >> quite large for us. But I'm curious if others have DICTs this large or >> larger and have no adverse affect on their application performance. >> >> This is Unidata 7.3.4 if it matters. >> >> -- >> Jeffrey Butera, PhD >> Associate Director for Application and Web Services >> Information Technology >> Hampshire College >> 413-559-5556 >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
