Fast Allocate

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/30/05 5:42 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> 
> Yes. I presumed that was the case.  What I'm curous about however is whether
> there is a faster way to allocate a large number of table records all at
> once having blank or common values without having to have a loop that calls
> AddRecord.

NO.

And no sense.

Because methods as AddRecord -- are in fact LOW LEVEL methods.

You cannot speed up nothing here.

 
> In essence I'm looking for the equivalent of the RB "Dim" statement which
> allows me to say:
>     
> 
>     dim bigTable( 30 )  as Integer
> 
> rather than:
> 
>     dim bigTable() as Integer
>     for I as integer = 1 to 30
>     bigTable.append blankValue
>     next

DBs do not have such things.


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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