Hello...our quickbooks program on our small network lately has been lagging..soooooo slowwwwww...I am assuming it is just bogged down with too much info..as we started this year with a new quickbook session from last year. A woman that was working here last year tried this archive feature and we lost tons of data I don't think she did it correctly and I wasn't in the day she did this. Any suggestions to help speed up QB would be greatly appreciated. We have 4 people logged in but we have tried just 1 or 2 at a time and same slowness.
archive or not? slow quickbooks
Sep 07, 2005
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Usually the cheapest way is a faster computer. You might try adding bags and bags of RAM to the machine handling the master data file. The fastest disk access is no disk access. If the operating system can handle a read request from memory, you're way ahead.
To really help you, we would need to know more such as:
Size of the data file Types of machines, new not too old or old - better yet P4 P3 Celeron etc. How much memory?
Version of QB
QB has to drag the info over the network so are you using a 100 mps network or wireless or???
If we knew as a group this kind of info we could give better answers. A higher powered machine with a big data file will still have to drag the info over the network and if you have a slow network won't help much.
j&r wrote:
Hub or switch?
Good additional request
Thanks everyone. This info makes alot of sense as we did recently add another computer to the network (a slow just for basic data computer,, but still on the network) and that time frame is around when we started lagging. We are on a linksys router and a hub...and all computers are a little different mostly dell 4550's...but enough with my ramblings..you guys hit it on the head it is that crappy computer back there and I actually just got a stick of memory to add to it. will let you know if it works.
Hang on for QB2006 - QB already announced it will use a commercial database and run faster.
Why the great mystery? There is no mention of a new database engine on Intuit's QB 2006 web pages. The only mention of speed improvements is for the Enterprise Version.
Come on MIke, give us more details. Which versions are involved, which commercial database? I'm going to hold my breath until you tell us.
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Yes, I'd love to hear more info on this also. I have been using the MS SBA '06 Trial, and am contemplating a switch to that. However, if Intuit does improve QB quite a bit, I'd be pretty inclined to stay with QB a couple more years and give SBA some more time to get polished.
Leo,
What features are missing in QB that you think are in SBA? What version of QB are you using?
Going to let this question sit for a bit, am still in the middle of evaluation and do not want to draw any conclusions yet. Will post back on this tread after updating and getting some more use of SBA.
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