Long time to search through Access database

[Duane]

I have created an application using VB and Access. The database will have
over 12,000 records to a max of 200,000 records. It seems to take forever
to search for a given item, eg. make sure there is no duplications in the
database. Is there anyway to speed up this process?

I was told to use FoxPro, but I do not have FoxPro. Does the FoxPro provided
with VB6 have the tools to compact and repair the database?

please email me at dsnelling@msc.ca

[Aleksandr]

"Duane" <dsnelling@msc.ca> wrote:
>
>I have created an application using VB and Access. The database will have
>over 12,000 records to a max of 200,000 records. It seems to take forever
>to search for a given item, eg. make sure there is no duplications in the
>database. Is there anyway to speed up this process?
>
>I was told to use FoxPro, but I do not have FoxPro. Does the FoxPro provided
>with VB6 have the tools to compact and repair the database?
>
>please email me at dsnelling@msc.ca

The time used to find a particular record doesn't depends on the database
exclusively, is your skill in programming too.
If you use this

Dim Rst as New ADODB.Recordset

Rst.Open "SELECT Code, Name FROM Items WHERE Active = 1", Conn
rst.Find "Code = '" & searchvalue & "'"

it will take an eternity to complete, assuming you have 200,000 records.

But if you do the following,

Dim Rst as New ADODB.Recordset

Rst.Open "SELECT Code, Name FROM Items WHERE Active = 1 AND Code = '" & searchvalue
& "'", conn

Then the record you want will be found in less than a second.

The most important thing is you programming technics.

Luck!