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To: Spots who wrote (3623)	3/10/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Continuing the report, database update time on a P6/200 for the last three days was approximately 5 1/2 minutes. This is a disk bound operation (did not use over 25% cpu time according to my performance monitor), so it will depend more on the speed of your disks and controllers than on processor speed. Of course of you have other things going on, that will matter too. Being a database guy, I'm impressed with these figures (incidentally, the P6 is a SLOWER executor of 16-bit code, which all of this is than a P5--my tests show a P5/133 outperforms a P6/200 in 16-bit apps by a considerable margin). This is a good reason for a proprietary database format. I suspect most TA denizens care more about performance than non-proprietary formats. As a database product guy, I have to agree with this (if it's true, which is my assumption). As a novice TA guy, thanks for everybody's help on this and the other TA threads. Hope I can give back a little in the form of technical and performance info where at least I know a little. Regards, Spots