You are assuming the user needs to look at the records directly, but that is not the only way, it is possible you need that million records to build a 3D object representation to display in the screen, or to plot a graph which is at what the user will look
>And why would you???
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>Who's going to look at 1,000,000 records? On screen or in print?
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>Database 101 - only pull what you need and no more...
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>+++ Rick ---
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Just benchmark retrieving 1 million records from SQL server and you'd stop there...>>>
>>>Not to speak for Rod, but my guess is that he's talking about retrieving a subset, not the entire thing...
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>>>Kevin
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>>Should be. From his words 'after retrieving...' I sensed he meant it. VFP can do that but .Net:(
>>Cetin
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