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Subject: MySQL and MySQL plugin performance
From: "Will Brokenbourgh" <realbasic at aybcomputers dot com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:53 -0800
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I'm porting a pretty large medical accounting app to Windows using VB 6 and MS 
Access.  I had an opportunity to evaluate RB 5.5.4 and I am very impressed...so 
impressed that after I release this final VB build to our clients, I want to 
port everything to RB.

Obviously, with RB, I will no longer be using Access, so I have researched a 
few different cross-platform DBs.  MySQL seems to be a good balance of 
everything my app needs and the price is right.  I converted the Access DB to 
MySQL and tested RB's MySQL performance with the MySQL plugin and found that, 
on the same machine, RB takes around 3 seconds to select a single row in a 
large table and MS Access through VB performs the same query in about 700 
milliseconds.  Also, using the data control, if I move to the previous record 
in RB, it takes about 2.5 seconds, in VB/Access it's instantaneous.  Quite a 
difference!

My questions are:

* Is there something I can do to increase RB's MySQL performance (besides the 
obvious things like RAM, faster machine, correct column indexing)?

* If not, are there plans to fix this soon?

Because of some complexities, I'd rather stay away from the ODBC plugin.

Thanks!

Will
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