Tag: optimise

  • SQL Server Quickest way to Insert Multiple Rows with VB

    Having to parse huge amounts of data from xml files to an SQL Server database, I needed to greatly optimise my code. Here are some tests to insert 10000 rows into table TABLETESTER. First, using the standard INSERT INTO without specifying column names. TickCount of 70547. Specifying the column names is actually marginally faster. TickCount…

  • Visual Basic 6 – quickest way to find first/last character in string

    When you are parsing large amounts of data, the way you code string matching can make a huge difference. In one case I needed to find if a string was contained within quotes, here are the test results from quickest to slowest. The test situation was to find if the last character in the string…