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- From: grub@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca (Gordon Grieder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Exporting from FM Pro to other relational DBMS's
- Message-ID: <c2oRXB2w165w@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:23:11 GMT
- References: <C15z3t.Lp9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Sender: bbs@draco.bison.mb.ca (BBS User)
- Organization: The Draco Unix System [BBS]
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- hades@dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
-
- > s914370@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (David Morrison) writes:
- >
- > >The database will continue to grow to the extent of having 10,000 to
- > >100,000 records stored in it. Now I'm under the impression that FM Pro will
- > >not be able to search this size database very quickly (within 30 - 60 secs).
- >
- > Well, since FM Pro indexes all of its fields, including Calculation
- > fields, this is probably a good impression to be under. How fast Fm Pro
- > will perform the search will depend on 2 things: How fast your computer
- > is, and how fast you access to the HD storing the database file is,
- > obvioulsy if you are trying to do this kind of search over the network
- > it will take longer. But it is important to remember that FM Pro is disk
- > based.
- >
-
- At my office, our main FM Pro db has just reached 70,000 records and 15 MB
- in size. We find that when a search includes a date field, multiple
- requests, or will have a large amound of 'found' records it really bogs
- the system down. If you're lucky and your search will return a few hundred
- (or just a handful) or records, FM Pro shines.
-
- FYI-Main stuff on a IIci, being used by a handful of SEs and a dialup via
- ARA.
-
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