Thanks for the response and suggestions! How big can I make a record before I see a significant performance hit while opening, editing and writing that a "super" record back to the palm?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Speeding up hotsynch (24K Records) > > Can anyone suggest a way to increase the time it > > takes to download a large PDB that has 10K+ records. > > > Ah, David, you've come to the right place -- I can > suggest about a dozen or so ways to *increase* the > time it takes to download a large PDB. You can even > do it without programming; just set the baud rate on > your serial port to the lowest possible value ;-) > > With that lame joke out of the way: > > > Someone suggested I combine the records together. > > However, I foresee a lot of complication in > > creating/editing/deleting records on the palm. > > You'll find lots of discussions about this in the > conduit forum: > > http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpcdf/index.html > > I don't recall really any good solution other than > reducing the number of physical records (since that > seems to be what the underlying cause for the > performance problem in the Sync Manager is). > > If you don't need an actual "sync" between handheld > database and PC/Server database and have enough RAM, > you could have your conduit dump your data as set of > large records (even in compressed form) onto the > handheld, and then have the handheld application > subdivide it into the actual record database when it > recognizes that a new database file has arrived. > > The only other alternative I see is what you > described: have your application handle larger > physical records that are a container for a number of > your (current) logical records. It really shouldn't > be that difficult to implement, especially if you > didn't scatter all the database access functions all > over your code. > > HTH, > Oliver > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
