>Anyone have ideas on what we be the most effecient way to find a
>record when working with an extremley large number ( 9000+ ) i need
>to find a record by a field in that record, and i do not know the
>index.. currently i'm doing dmqueryrecord then finding the next one
>and comparing the field.. but this is very ineffecient. all
>thoughts are welcome.
When you first start the program, build a hash table or searchable
tree structure using the field of interest. Then use that structure
to search. You could also probably build that structure once and save
it in feature memory or a file stream.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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