Re: Caching tables

Sandon L. Joren wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> Please forgive my ignorance but I'm only a network engineer with a problem.
> One of our development groups developed an application that utilizes combo
> boxes/drop-down lists. These drop-downs are populated by by downloading a
> table from the server each time the drop-down is accessed. This, as you
> might expect, causes a tremendous amount of network traffic. Isn't there
> someway to cache these tables the first time they are accessed and maintain
> this cache until the table is changed (not very often) or until the
> application is shutdown. As this is probably a mundane task to you guru
> folks, you can reply to me offline with any suggestions.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your time
>
> Sandon L. Joren
> sjoren_at_lucent.com

As an alternative to populating a list by a select stmt, you can use a so-called record group (see populate_list builtin for details).

Marcus Reichardt
Consultant Received on Thu Jul 02 1998 - 15:17:06 CEST