Re: Search Times in DB

[Bob Ebert]

At 9:59 AM -0800 3/27/99, Ing. Martin HOPPEL wrote:
>has anybody information about search times in larger databases on palm
>III appr. 2-3MB and 15000 to 20000 records, and if there are some speed
>up possibilities

Sort the database.  Then you can search it with binary search, using
DmFindSortPosition.  Binary searching 20000 records only requires 15 key
comparisons max... that's the beauty of a log(n) algorithm!

                                --Bob