Re: Where vs Histogram vs ?? [message #32618 is a reply to message #32526] |
Thu, 17 October 2002 16:22   |
Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531 Registered: November 2000
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I can definitely echo Bob's suggestion to use index for searching. Don't
use structure fields. Using a database would like ly be better yet; I
think MS Access Jet should be reasonably fast with 15 mln records.
Good luck,
Pavel
Andrew Cool wrote:
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> Hello All,
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> I have a structure defined as :-
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> data_st = {YEAR : 0 ,$
> DAY : 0 ,$ ; 136 days over 12 years
> HALF_HR : 0 ,$ ; 0..47
> RANGE_IDX : 0 ,$ ; 0..267
> WRF : 0B ,$ ; 3 possible values
> FREQ : 0B ,$ ; 4 possible values
> BEAM : 0B ,$ ; 4 possible values
> PAD : 0B ,$ ; Padding to align byte
> boundaries
> Parameter : FLTARR(5)}
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> Replicate that a few times :-
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> database = Replicate(data_st,15425228)
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