On 03/09/2014 15:54, Michael Glassman wrote:

> I solved a similar problem by realizing that items in stock and other such tables rarely get updated. So I added a field called "Searchable" that contains the concatenation of all of the possibly searchable fields. Yes, your file will be larger (though 10,000 record files aren't really very large to start with), and you'll take a one-time hit when you populate this field for all 10K records, but those drawbacks are negligible compared to the time you'll save by only having to search one field in the future. Just don't forget to alter your insert and update routines to include populating the new field.

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> Mike

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> Michael H. Glassman

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> From: Sytze de Boer

> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 9:33 PM

> To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> Subject: Quickest Search

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> I have a large stock file (say 10,000 records)

> I only have a vague idea what I'm searching for

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> So, I may have a variable like

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> srch4="upper(name+code+stkmemo+unitmeas2+altsupply+descopt2+descopt3+descopt4+descopt5+bar2code+bar3code+alt2code)"

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> Is there a better/quicker way to CONSTRUCT the following

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> Select Code, desc, price, cost, qoh from winstoks Into Table temp order By

> Code where At(lcSearch,&srch4)>0

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#bad# database design - sorry!

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