RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6
From: Cyndi Bradberry <CyndiB@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:21:49 -0600
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1) Why don't they want a web app? Just curious.
> They don't like the interface. They currently keep their information in
excel.

2) ODBC only drags a system into the ground if there aren't indexes
available to support the queries. What were you trying to access, and how
big are the files.
> We had some little files and some really huge ones. We used indexes and
even built special ones just for the ODBC. But on a 510 it was a big
processor pig.


Cyndi B.
Idaho

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