>Hi everybody,
>
>Suppose, I have a huge list of items, say, users - more than 10000. I need to design an interface with the ability to quickly find the necessary person. What kind of interface would be convenient for this task?
>
>Thanks in advance for sharing your ideas.

Nadya;

I am using a number of ways to do this, according to user needs and requirements. For something similar to what you have described I use a series of text boxes and combo boxes. Here is one example:

The user enters what is desired and may include date or date range, company code, part number, and defect. The user can also sort on each of these criteria.

The returned data set is viewed as a table of data with hot links (user clicks on link) to view the detail record. Additional data is displayed such as company name, part description and other important data.

In your case you could use a form like this to allow the user to do lookups on name, city, state, etc.

If you would like a copy of the code I will see what I can do to get it to you.

Tom