>I have a program that gets data from sql server and puts it into vfp tables (free tables). From there reporting is done against the dbfs. This needs to be done multiple times a day. One table, tblactivity, has about 500K records.
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>Regarding the following code:
>lnr=sqlexec(lnh,"select * from tblactivity","curactivity") && takes 30 or 40 seconds
>copy to tblactivity_vfp && takes a few minutes?? haven't benchmarked exactly, but it is slow
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>Is there a way to speed this up? Years ago I used BCP, don't remember much about it right now, but thinking it would speed up writing to a text file, but then I'd have to append into a dbf anyway.
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>Is there any way to bypass sending results to a cursor first, a way to use sqlexec to go straight to a dbf?
>Any way to speed up the copy to?
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>Thanks.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but frx reports will work against any cursor you point them at. Why not just use remote views against the sql, massage the data however you like, parameterize, whatever?
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