They can't see that much on one screen anyway. So break it up and only give them 500 at a time. You can use startrow and maxrows for that.
Or you can spit it out in a .csv file that will pop up in excel or openoffice. I did this all the time with CF8 and it is even easier now with cf9 because you can use cfspreadsheet. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Rick Colman <rcol...@cox.net> wrote: > > I need to query, retrieve and display a large amount of data; i.e. 4100 > rows by 50 columns of numerics, to the browser screen. It is really > slow, and after some testing, the bottleneck seems to be on the page > that displays the data. The query is OK and connection is ok. But, the > user has to wait an unacceptably long time for the results to show. > > Ideally, I would like to break the returned data into about 10 > "spreadsheet-style" grids, with one grid per tab. TABLES is way too slow. > > Any ideas on how to render the displayed data quickly would be appreciated. > > Rick. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327489 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4