topic Query task faster than Find task in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/query-task-faster-than-find-task/m-p/624096#M3045 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am curious as to why a Query Task is faster than a Find task on large returns.&nbsp; I have a large feature class hosted on ArcGIS Server and I pull segments of data out using queries.&nbsp; On a large request, i.e. 40,000 features being returned, the Find Task commonly times out or takes many minutes while a Query task returns the values in less then a minute.&nbsp; In the Find task I have the parameters set to a specific layer, a layer definition and a search term.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The issue is that a Query task returns the field codes not the values (domains) and in my application I obviously want to display the descriptions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What accounts for the difference in the performance between the two tasks?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Also, why does one return the code and the other return the value?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Tony</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:13:51 GMT TonyMonsour 2011-12-01T17:13:51Z Query task faster than Find task https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/query-task-faster-than-find-task/m-p/624096#M3045 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am curious as to why a Query Task is faster than a Find task on large returns.&nbsp; I have a large feature class hosted on ArcGIS Server and I pull segments of data out using queries.&nbsp; On a large request, i.e. 40,000 features being returned, the Find Task commonly times out or takes many minutes while a Query task returns the values in less then a minute.&nbsp; In the Find task I have the parameters set to a specific layer, a layer definition and a search term.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The issue is that a Query task returns the field codes not the values (domains) and in my application I obviously want to display the descriptions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What accounts for the difference in the performance between the two tasks?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Also, why does one return the code and the other return the value?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Tony</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:13:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/query-task-faster-than-find-task/m-p/624096#M3045 TonyMonsour 2011-12-01T17:13:51Z