I’ve been working with some very large databases, which are taking a long time to run

I am hoping I can get some advice on how I might be able to increase the performance of my queries?

Should I (examples)
1.Request to have more data archived or smaller amounts of data in the database
2.Request a new table added to the server with only customers I deal with.

Thank you for your time and help

Corey

When you say large databases? Are they Access or SQL? If Access, how large are they? If SQL, where are the queries, in Access or on the SQL Server?


mmcdonal

The queries are made up of Access and some SQL Pass Through queries. My Database is pulling from an Oracle Database

The bes toption is to have the queries reside on the server database, rather than in the front end since the server will optimize them, and they will run faster.

You can also limit your recordsets with the parameter of your choosing, even if it is like SELECT TOP 100 or something simple like that.

See Te Guru's Guides by Henderson for further tuning, or The Art of SQL is also a good book. Unless it is some fundamental front end issue, these are going to be your best sources.

Did that help?

mmcdonal

Corey,

Its difficult to help without getting too deep into your setup... but you could think about front-loading a lot of the server data that isnt going to change, so the lag is kept to when the application starts up rather than throughout the usage of the thing. Not always convenient though.
If your mdb is on a server location too, then it might be worth putting a copy locally on a machine and seeing if that helps any. To do this in a production environment, you would need some form of downloader..

I do this kind of thing regularly and use batch files to copy the server version to c:\temp and then an autoexec to grab anything which isnt gonna change during the session. You can go further and have an intermediate access backend for any shared data on the access side of things as well as the Oracle backend. I'll stop there!

HTH

Lee