Couldn't it be set up so you couldnt search archived posts all forums, but you can search the non archived posts. I didn't get a timeout when I did that.. just a thought to help people out
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Why not make an SQL-optimized search page and supply it in the tools.zip file? The only people who would need to use a search.asp that works "better" than the current one when it comes to large databases use an SQL database, because Access databases will give up before it would get that far, right?
Is this forum running on an Access database? Mine has just been upgraded from Access to SQL and the difference in speed generally and search in particular is tremendous.
Is this forum running on an Access database? Mine has just been upgraded from Access to SQL and the difference in speed generally and search in particular is tremendous.
It's running on SQL server. The search is only a dog and timesout IF they try to search all forums. Any other time it's fine...