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- From: shah@tay1.dec.com (Amitabh Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: MS Access Optimization
- Message-ID: <SHAH.92Dec30110438@santur.tay1.dec.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:04:38 GMT
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- In-reply-to: rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com's message of 30 Dec 92 15:37:05 GMT
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- On 30 Dec 92 15:37:05 GMT, rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Richard Scott)
- said:
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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'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.
-
- A few suggestions:
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- 1. Disable or cut down on your RAMdisk substantially - say 256K at the most.
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- 2. Reduce the Smartdrive cache
-
- 3. Set the MaxBufferSize entry in MSACCESS.INI to less than 512
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- 4. Don't have any other big application running at the same time, even things
- like Norton Desktop for Windows.
-
- 5. Buy more memory :-)
-
- Do report back if these suggestions help.
-
- -amitabh.
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