Hi all

I have spent a year plus working on a Lasso/ Filemaker solution. The
coding is ok but I find the time to load pages verging on the
ridiculous. i.e. 10 secs, 15 secs, 57 secs and 15 secs for 4 separate
pages - so every time a user wishes to change an item (they will be
changing 30- 40) they are sitting killing time for over half an hour. I
have employed progress indicators to disguise the time factor but when
you hit the second or third change it starts to get very noticeable. I
have scanned the list and followed the advice of minimizing Value List
calls and creating layouts that have only the required fields (to avoid
FMP sending all the field info) but I'm still hitting this very large
speed bump. The only way out of this that I can see is to bite the
bullet and go MySql. This leads to lots of newbie fears/questions - any
help as always would be appreciated.

1 Just how great a speed increase is My SQL compared to FMP?
2 Filemaker had an easy interface - are there any packages that I can
use with MySql to move it towards the ease of use factor?
3 Is there any software that I can use to even partially port my FMP
DBs to MySql?


Again thanks for taking time to read this and any suggestions would
really be appreciated.


- Alex


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