Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Speeding up search - Locate For or Seek?
Message
From
26/07/2000 11:19:37
David Stevenson
Stevenson & Associates
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Re: Speeding up search - Locate For or Seek?
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00397065
Message ID:
00397077
Views:
20
Geo,

>LOCATE is a sequential search of the table. SEEK utilizes indexes which are binary trees ordering the table.

I'm not debating that SEEK is faster -- but how can LOCATE always be a sequential search of the TABLE, even when Rushmore kicks in?
David Stevenson, MCSD, 2-time VFP MVP / St. Petersburg, FL USA / david@topstrategies.com
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform