[AccessD] Inquiry System Built With Access 2007 ? Performance Concern - Partial Key

Brad,

<<We are not able to change any of the tables, keys, relationships, indexes,
etc. in any of the tables in the purchased system.  We can only read the
data.  >>

 While you cannot change anything existing, can you add a view to the SQL
database?

<<Currently the Inquiry System does not have the second part of the key
available.  Only the Part_ID  is available, not the Routing_Sequence_Number.
(Not all Parts have routings, all we need to discern is whether a part has a
routing or not) >>

 Not sure I understand this part.  When you link the table, do you see the
index with both fields and is that set as the PK field or no?

Jim.

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 06:20 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Inquiry System Built With Access 2007 ? Performance
Concern - Partial Key

All,

We have an Inquiry System that obtains data from a purchased package's SQL
Server database via ODBC.

The Inquiry System works nicely and response time is quite fast for all
screens.

We are not able to change any of the tables, keys, relationships, indexes,
etc. in any of the tables in the purchased system.  We can only read the
data.  
 
Recently, a request has been made where we will need to pull data that will
come from a table that has not been used by the Inquiry System before.

Here is the catch.  The new table that we now want to pull data from has a
two-part key (Part_ID, and Routing_Sequence_Number).

Currently the Inquiry System does not have the second part of the key
available.  Only the Part_ID  is available, not the Routing_Sequence_Number.
(Not all Parts have routings, all we need to discern is whether a part has a
routing or not) 

When we try to obtain data from this table with only the Part_ID, the data
is returned, but response time is slow.   This table has about 2,000 rows. 

I am considering two approaches and decided to see if anyone else has run
into something similar and has advice.

Approach-1.  Build an Access table from the SQL Server table, that has only
Part_ID for the key.

Approach-2. Use the SQL Server data to build an array when the inquiry
system is first initiated then obtain the data from the array.

I would guess that there may be other approaches that would work better.

I appreciate your assistance.

Thanks,
Brad