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Old 01-20-2005, 11:02 AM   #10
SandMan
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Originally Posted by disposableheros
nobody mentioned it yet, so i will....

turn off any anti-virus programs you have running. that will make it run almost twice as fast.

This only works when you don't have much data in the database, after about 10-20 seasons this will not improve the running of the program. After this time is when it is a database engine problem. I still think it would be nice to have the program written in C with a small footprint database engine like codebase. I did a test and took the data from the MDB file and put the data into COBOL dat files and the savings was - get this - The MDB file was 36MB, the dat file was 3.4MB. Of course the dat files are optimized for size and ACCESS does not allow this.

Ideas anyone?
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