>>>>One of our customers is having some time problems with a procedure of closing the period of a particular module. We just identified the step where the function takes the longest which i am posting here
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>*:This is a temp cursor with xx,xxx amount of records, since I do not have access to the real data
>>>>*:I just can't really now how many records there are, but most likely there are thousands
>>>>select CurIctfer
>>>>go top in CurIctfer
>>>>
>>>>*:This is basically a wrapper routine for the SQLPrepare() VFP function
>>>>if !PrepareSql(pnHandle, "insert into mySQlTable (cuid,cbatcno,cjeid, cacctid,cdescript,creference," +;
>>>> "cyear, cpdno, cstatus, csource, dtrs, ntrsamt, ctrstype, ctrsno, cobjno) values (?CurIctfer.cuid, " +;
>>>> "?CurIctfer.cbatcno, " +;
>>>> "?CurIctfer.cjeid, ?CurIctfer.cacctid, ?CurIctfer.cdescript, ?CurIctfer.creference," + ;
>>>> "?CurIctfer.cyear, ?CurIctfer.cpdno, ?CurIctfer.cstatus, ?CurIctfer.csource," +;
>>>> " ?CurIctfer.cTrs, ?CurIctfer.ntrsamt, ?CurIctfer.cTrsType, ?CurIctfer.cTrsNo, ?CurIctfer.cObjNo)")
>>>> return .f.
>>>>endif
>>>>
>>>>*:and here is where the inserts are made, goes record by record and inserts each one to the back end
>>>>*:database
>>>>scan
>>>> if !SetSqlData(, pnHandle)
>>>> return .f.
>>>> endif
>>>>ENDSCAN
>>>>
>>>>=UnprepareSql(pnHandle)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The customer claims this piece of code takes over 2 hours. so I was wondering if We change the Scan..Insert..Endscan and replace it with a append from kinda like this
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>*:I would create a Remote view, NoDataOnLoad, base on the mySQlTable, Table Buffering
>>>>Select mySQlTable
>>>>APPEND FROM CurIctfer
>>>>TABLEUPDATE()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>do you guys think this would be faster, or slower?
>>>>
>>>>maybe not with a append from, maybe the "CurIctfer" could be a remote view, and then just perfom the Tableupdate(). would this be helpfull?
>>>>
>>>>Once again, i do not have the actual data to do the testing so this is basically Hypothetical
>>>>
>>>>regards
>>>
>>>Why not make this cursor updatable and send all updates directly?
>>
>>acctually that is what I implied on the note above
>>
>>>>maybe not with a append from, maybe the "CurIctfer" could be a remote view, and then just perfom the Tableupdate()
>>
>>would it be faster?
>
>How many records?
>BTW, From where your CurIctfer cursor comes from?, Can't you do its creation directly on your BackEnd?
From where your CurIctfer cursor comes from?,
>>>>*:This is a temp cursor with xx,xxx amount of records, since I do not have access to the real data
>>>>*:I just can't really now how many records there are, but most likely there are thousands
>>>>select CurIctfer
>>>>go top in CurIctfer
Can't you do its creation directly on your BackEnd?
not really, I mean , I migth, but this represents a huge change on coding, i am just trying to figure out how to do it a bit faster with out changing a lot of code.
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