makapaka's avatar

Handling 10s of thousands of rows

I have queries that I expect to take a long time - they are 10s of thousands (or 100s) of rows in the DB - how do you handle this ? Obviously pagination of results is step 1, but what if you need to retrieve those rows in order to output to a csv for a client who wants to manipulate them as a spreadsheet ?

Any thoughts as to how you resolved this?

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jlrdw's avatar

When I had to do monthly reports I would dump the data to local and use Microsoft Access to handle the reporting. Prior to access I would use visual Foxpro. This stuff is so much more efficient in a local database.

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