Reading 10 million records Speedily

Question

Hi I am trying to fill the combobox control on my form by 10 million records using the datasource property & using teh displaymember & valuemember property. The problem is that it is taking a lot of time for this ( abt 8.75 minutes) Is there a quicker way to it ? I also tried teh datareader it helps but I also need the values associated with these records which r not accesible be datareader!!!( Maybe I am wrong) Plz heelp me ASAP

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[YourTable]') if it exist then it will display the result,,,with table name ,,,tpe and everything

Answer 2

Select your database and open new query window and

EXEC sp_tables @table_type = "'table'"

Answer 3

hi,

there are two tables sys.tables and sys.objects, in which data base maintain table information
please try.

select * from sys.tables where name = 'Table1'

select * from sys.objects where type = 'U' and type_desc = 'USER_TABLE'

hope this will help you.