>>>>>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.


What I meant was how CurIctfer is created?
Some SPT command?
Import from some external file?