Hi Forum Folk,
I am writing to ask for suggestions for speeding up my script.
I currently have a 2 tables in a File Geodatabase. The first [TABLE1] has approximately 2000 records and the second [TABLE2] approximately 200000 records. [TABLE2] contains a foreign key from [TABLE1]
I am currently using a SearchCursor with a Where statement to retrieve the relevant records from [TABLE2] for each row of [TABLE1]. Even though it has been suggested by ESRI to perform this process, it is taking approximately 1-2 seconds for the SearchCursor to execute and return its result set. Each result set consists of between 100-2000 records.
The execution time seems incredibly slow for this operation. I feel I may be missing a tweak that would speed this up, is the SearchCursor performing any license checks or validation checks in the background each time it is executed? I have written some code to load [TABLE2] into a python dictionary to perform the look up on the foreign key. There was a marked speed up.
Your thoughts?