Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Herb, which program is that? I have written one using the Jet engine and it is lightning fast on it's data management: loads new records from files on disk storage in nanoseconds! The slowest part of most image database programs is when people try to store the images in the database itself: that's an absolute speed killer.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia< Thumbs Plus. when it is doing a database commit of a new image. does something that seems to raise a semaphore and prevent certain types of disk access until it is done, which takes about a second on my P4 1.4GHz. the database file is small, only 35 megabytes. that's all that is needed to index about 7000 image files. so it is annoying. i'm not quite annoyed enough yet to write my own image database program. the 7000 image files themselves are on a dedicated 60GB drive that is nearly full. anyway, i know the reason is bad use of the Jet engine or bad table design inside the program. i haven't gone and looked at the table layout to see what might be wrong. Herb....
