Re: [U2] Question about indexing

2009-04-02 Thread Mecki Foerthmann
Hi Mark, Doing selects in a loop is never a good idea especially on large files and definitely not a sorted one like you are trying to do. But if you really have no other option, then you should at least create an index on ItmID on TABLE2. I don't know about Universe, but don't you have to do

RE: [U2] Question About Indexing

2009-04-02 Thread Brutzman, Bill
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Smith Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:04 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Question about indexing Hello everyone, I have a question about indexing. I have just a little of experience, so be patient with me.:) First of all I'm using Universe 10.0.4.0

RE: [U2] Question About Indexing

2009-04-02 Thread Mark Smith
: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Smith Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:04 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Question about indexing Hello everyone, I have a question about indexing. I have just a little of experience

Re: [U2] Question About Indexing

2009-04-02 Thread Mecki Foerthmann
Mark, READNEXT works on any multi-attributed array not just on active select lists. Look up the FROM option or the SELECT command in the Unibasic manual. And of course instead of reading from the SAVEDLISTS file you might rather want to execute 'get-list listname' I gathered that the

[U2] Question about indexing

2009-04-01 Thread Mark Smith
Hello everyone, I have a question about indexing. I have just a little of experience, so be patient with me.:) First of all I'm using Universe 10.0.4.0 and SB 5.2 on a Windows 2003 Server on a Dual-Core Opteron Server and 4Gb of RAM SCSI drives I wanted to simplify (just a little) my