Jim Dettman
jimdettman at verizon.net
Mon Sep 16 16:28:51 CDT 2013
Brad, Your server scheduling may be set to give priority to background services rather then foreground applications. If so, anything in the running as a service is going to preempt your Access Reporting, which will increase the time it takes to run. There are also some memory related settings on the advanced tab that can affect foreground processing and may have been changed either by a software install or in conjunction with it. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 03:15 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Job Duration Puzzler - Access 2007 Report All, We have a high level Access 2007 Report that is generated every night. The data for this report is pulled from a number of SQL-Server database tables. This report is automatically generated nightly on a server with these specs - MS Window Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2 2.50 Ghz 12 GB Ram About a month ago, I noticed that the "run time" for generating this report went from 8 minutes to 20 minutes. Everything works fine, except that the run time has more than doubled. I can also run this same report on a stand-alone PC with these specs - Windows XP SP3 2.50 Ghz 3.25 GB Ram When the same report is generated on this PC, the job runs for about 8 minutes. Over the weekend, when nothing else was running, I conducted a number of tests to confirm what I was seeing. The results were consistent. The generation of this report takes more than twice as long on the Server as compared to the PC. I am very puzzled and not sure where to look. I don't know why the run times went up dramatically on the Server. I don't understand why the run times vary between the two boxes. Any insights or advice would be most appreciated. Thanks, Brad -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com