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- From: troj@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kevin Trojanowski)
- Subject: Re: Paradox 4.0 speed (?)
- Message-ID: <troj.721089339@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <tim.1.720996716@tim.src.utah.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:35:39 GMT
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- tim@tim.src.utah.edu (Tim Ma) writes:
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- >Two questions regarding Paradox:
-
- >1) Paradox 4.0
-
- >An inquiry to all users of Paradox 4.0 out there. We recently upgraded to
- >4.0 after reading articles and ads that highly touted the improved speed of
- >Paradox 4.0 (claims that it was much faster that FoxPro 2.0). I am
- >impressed with some of 4.0's new features, but SPEED is does not seem to be
- >one of them. I have a simple script written in 3.5 that randomizes the order
- >of records in a file. All it does it import that file as a single TEXT
- >field, tacks on a random number in anothe field, sorts on the random number,
- >and then outputs the randomized file. To my surprise, it runs almost 50%
- >slower in 4.0 thanit did in 3.5 (14 minutes vs. 10 minutes). I'm running a
- >386SX with 4M of RAM. Any ideas or comments?
-
- Wait now... When you say you're doing a sort on the data, does this mean
- that you're performing a sort in PAL, or that you're incrementally updating
- the index? If you're incrementally updating the index, do you really need
- to? You could more than likely improve your performance by updating the index
- only when you're done with all your insertions.
-
- >2) Paradox 3.5 "paradox.net" file
-
- >Most of our users are still using 3.5 during our transition. Does anyone
- >know what exactly Paradox does to the paradox.net file? When we get up to
- >around 10 users or so, it can take almost 4-5 excruciating minutes just to
- >pull up Paradox. A file server console check shows that stations are placing
- >an "exclusive lock" on the paradox.net file. Granted some of our machines
- >are 8088's but this wait seems almost ridiculous. Is there anything I can
- >do to help speed up the process?
-
- Can't help you there -- I only use Paradox at home, and thus haven't ever
- tried it on a network.
-
- >Thanks,
-
- >Tim Ma
- >Associate Programmer
- >University of Utah
- >email: tim@src.cppa.utah.edu
-
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