>>>>>Is there an easy way to speed up a grid which displays a filtered table? It is extremely slow, no matter how fast the computer is.
>>>>Jon,
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>>>>Be sure the filter is fully optimizable
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>>>>Better still use a parameterized view to populate the grid.
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>>>The grid works at a tolerable speed... until the first record in the filtered set is reached. At this point, if the user scrolls up using the scroll bar or press the up arrow - anything to try to move before the first record - the computer will just hang for about 20 seconds or so. It seems that just the first record is problematic.
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>>>I will check the filters again, just to make sure they can be optimized.
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>>>The parameterized view might be a possibility, too, although there would be a lot of parameters in this particular instance.
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>>>BTW, I'm doing this in VFP 3.0b if that makes a difference.
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>>The July '97 FoxPro Advisor article "Faster, Better Grids" is worth reading.
>>Ed B
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>I use a filtered parameterized view on a grid and the grid is on a user-defined page of a pageframe. The speed is OK... Not even half a second to navigate. .

My grid got really slow when I put combos in it and made the combo.Rowsource a SQL which selects several hundred records from a table of a few thousand, and then changed the keys from numeric to character. Navigation and scrolling as well as loading is very slow. The grid.Recordsource is a parameterized view. The SQL looks like: SELECT thingnum, thing_id, thingfield1, thingfield2, thingdescript,thingorder FROM things INTO CURSOR dummy WHERE thinggroup = cGroupVar ORDER BY thingorder.