Re: a need for speed

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,  yeah, that's the ticket.  (hat tip to booth)

unless we're talking about more than a couple hundred thousand records
I think it would run pretty fast too.

ok, old timers, all together now...  one... two... three....

THE CYCLE RULES!

;)

On 8/18/05, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh wait... (dusting off mental cobwebs)... can you order the records by
> area, prefix, suffix and terminal but tell RPG to level break on area,
> prefix and terminal??
> 
> It's been a long time, but IIRC you can do that sort of thing.  If you
> can, then indeed Booth's concept would work and would probably be very,
> very fast since all the compares would occur under the RPG cycle covers.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > From: Joe Pluta
> >
> > Won't work!  Either suffix is L3 and terminal is L4, or vice versa.
> On
> > the former, you break on every record.  On the latter, you miss the
> > multiple ranges.
> 
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