On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
> At 11:20 2014-11-19, Ted Roche <tedro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> FoxPro is faster than you think. >> >> REPLACE ALL (placeholderfield) WITH RECNO() >> >> is practically instantaneous, for reasonable values of instant. >> > > Maybe not. > > I did something similar just now on a table of about 110,000 rows, > and it took three seconds. Rafael might be dealing with a larger table. > On Foxite, one poster has been wrestling with a three million row table. > You have a table, likely with indexes, and rewrote 110,000 rows, probably to a hard disk. He's working with a cursor. CREATE CURSOR fred (myresult c(10), therecno I) FOR I = 1 TO 110000 INSERT INTO fred values( "data", 0) NEXT REPLACE ALL therecno WITH RECNO() IN fred Subsecond result, on an old Core2 processor with 4 Gb RAM. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vdX5u6YuNmsH2L+PNLQxSZqrM2=n7no4fjjrfffox...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
