Re: client side cursor vs server side cursor regarding memory used

Bill,

That's what I am recommending to the client but if all else fails, I am back
to JET.
With DTS, I can bulk load the entire feed and create a diff table from last
update, in minutes. Then the rows I need to work with decreases to very
few(1 or 2K?) compared to 320K rows potentially.
So, instead of taking a couple of hours nightly, it's taking days.

Some political issues exist and so, BCP/DTS option may not even be possible.
At this point, I'd love to use something like SQL Express for client side
massaging of the data but it's still in beta although they seem to have Go
Live license already. I guess I can try MSDE as well but I heard there were
a lot of issues with installation/configuration.

Any ideas on this front?
Thanks

Jiho

"William (Bill) Vaughn" <billvaRemoveThis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I think you would have a lot more luck and dramatically better performance
> if you used BCP or DTS for this instead of JET and a client application.
>
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> "Jiho Han" <jiho.han@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >I have a VB 6 app that imports data from a text data source via JET 4.0
to
> >a
> > SQL server database.
> >
> > Although I did not receive the error myself but when my client tested
it,
> > they received a out of memory error. There are about 60K+ rows with 150
> > columns each of text and numeric values. Obviously, there are checks
that
> > need to be done like, the client system config, etc. I wanted to know
> > whether using a different type of cursor made any difference in the
usage
> > of
> > memory. I may have some misconceptions regarding client side cursors
and
> > would like to dispel some of it if false. For example, I think that
since
> > the client side cursor keeps track of the cursor on the client side,
it'd
> > retain all the records retrieved so far whereas the server side cursor
> > might
> > not. Maybe I am confusing it with disconnected recordsets.
> >
> > Any insights provided in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jiho
> >
> >
>
>


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