[AccessD] Performance tips anyone?

Annie,

If you have forms with lots of comboboxes, it certainly helps if you 
don't populate them unless and until they are needed, i.e. set the Row 
Source on their Enter event.

Similarly, if you have forms with subforms on different pages of a tab 
control, leave the Source Object of the subforms blanks, and only set it 
if and when that tab is selected.

And here's another thing I only found out about this week... the first 
time a saved query is run after the database is compacted, will be slow, 
because the query plan has to be re-created.  So if you compact/repair 
the front-end application file, queries will run slow the first time, 
and forms based on queries will open slowly the first time.  An argument 
against 'Compact On Close' - but then, for memory, I don't think Comapct 
On Close was available in Access 97.

Regards
Steve


Annie Courchesne, CMA wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I have a customer that complains about his database (BE/FE A97 running in
> runtime mode) is slow.  The number of concurrent user keep growing over the
> years and it's up to 10 or 12 now.
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> What I'm looking at right now is to optimize the whole database and upgrade
> to Access 2003.  I've look at the performance tips from this page
> (http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/performancefaq.htm) and I've found some
> pretty usefull information.
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> Anyone has other tips on getting this database more performing?
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> I was also wondering if using a dedicated server for the database would help
> to improve performance?
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> And what about SQL Server 2005 Express?  I've read here that it's free and
> has a large capacity (more than enough for what I need).  Will it really
> help in speeding up the database?  How hard is it to set up?  Any good
> documentation I can read on this?
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> Thanks to all of you!
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> Annie Courchesne, CMA
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