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- From: rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Richard Scott)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: MS Access Optimization
- Keywords: database,DBMS,performance,Microsoft,Access
- Message-ID: <1hsfn1INN41l@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:37:05 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- Anyone played around with Microsoft Access enough yet to figure out how to get
- some performance out of it (or what kinds of things cause big performance
- hits)? I've got a simple database that I had previously implemented in MS
- Excel and am attempting to port to Access. It has 3 tables linked by
- relationships. The smallest is about 40 records and the largest maybe 2,000
- records. The records would be about 150 bytes at most. All the fields used in
- queries have been indexed.
-
- I'm running this on a 25MHz 386 with 8Mb memory (1.5Meg is RAMDisk) and a 110Mb
- IDE drive, Norton Cache, DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, and it is S-L-O-W. Even opening
- a form based on a query of the smallest table (40 70-byte records) takes around
- 20 seconds.
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- Richard Scott
- Stratus Computer, Inc.
- rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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