Loading large Visual FoxPro files are very slow. C#(OleDB)

I want to load large .DBF (Visual FoxPro) files into a DataTable. For smaller files < 300MB it works fine with a fill command, and it runs pretty fast. But for larger file I run out of memory and need to load them into smaller parts. (Loading row 0...1000, then 1001..2000 and so on)

Based on some code found on the internet I made this operation, input start is the row to start reading from and max is the number of rows that I want to read.

The problem is that even if I just want to read 5 rows it takes around 30-60seconds on my machine due to the very slow execution of the Command.ExecuteReader.

  public DataTable LoadTable2(string folder, string table, int start, int max)
  {
        string ConnectionString = "Provider=vfpoledb.1;Data Source="+folder+"\\"+table;
        OleDbConnection Connection = new OleDbConnection(ConnectionString);
        Connection.Open();
        string dataString = String.Format("Select * from {0}", table);
        OleDbCommand Command = new OleDbCommand(dataString, Connection);
        //Takes very long time on large files.
        OleDbDataReader Reader = Command.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.SequentialAccess);
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();
        var dt = ds.Tables.Add(table);
        // Add the table columns. 
        for (int i = 0; i < Reader.FieldCount; i++)
        {
           dt.Columns.Add(Reader.GetName(i), Reader.GetFieldType(i));
        }
        int intIdx = 0;
        int cnt = 0;
        while (Reader.Read())
        {
           if (intIdx >= start)
           {
              DataRow r = dt.NewRow();
              // Assign DataReader values to DataRow.  
              for (int i = 0; i < Reader.FieldCount; i++)
                 r[i] = Reader[i];
              dt.Rows.Add(r);
              cnt++;
           }
           if (cnt >= max)
           {
              break;
           }
           intIdx++;
        }
        Reader.Close();
        Connection.Close();
        return dt;
  }

I have tested with both OLE and ODBC connection, no big difference. Files are all on local disc.

Does anyone have a good idea for how to make this much faster?开发者_如何学运维

Best regards Anders

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I believe that with that driver (VFPOLEDB), you can change your query to specify the record numbers of interest. That way it would not be necessary to read through a bunch of records to get to the starting point. It would then not be necessary to skip over any records; just read the entire requested result set. The query might look like this:

SELECT * from thetable where recno() >= 5000 and recno() <= 5500

I realized that I have this driver installed and just now tested it and it does work. However, I don't think it "optimizes" that statement. In theory, it could directly compute the record offsets using record numbers, but (based on simple observation of a query on a larger dbf), it seems to do a full table scan. However, with FoxPro, you could create an index on recno(), and then it would be optimized.