I would explane to him it's is going to be hard on either the server or the network and if it's hard on the server then upgrade the server (it's a lot cheaper then upgrading the network)


>Hi,
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>I'm using a remote view to select 80000 records from a SQL 2K server. I have to retrieve 80,000 because I have to review each of the records. After getting the records I scan the results which works find and is very fast. However,(my problem) the DBA has informed me that request is hard on the server.
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>So does anybody have a suggestion on how I might better do this and keep the DBA happy?
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>John