How To Increase Performance of Loading Large Data from Database (Part-2)

Level: Advanced

Knowledge Required:
Part-2:

• Typed DataSet
• TableAdapter
• DataAdapter
• Partial Class
• Data Binding

Description:
In my previous post, I showed you how to Implement Paging in SQL Server 2005 (Database Level). In this post I will discuss How To Implement Paging Using DataAdapter (Application Level). This is a simple technique,

SQLDataAdapter gives us an option to load the Data from Particular Row and to Limit the Loading of Data by providing the Maximum Number of Records to be Loaded. The Fill Method of SQLDataAdapter has 5 Declarations, one of them is: SQLDataAdapter.Fill(StartRecord, MaxNumberOfRecordsToLoad, ParamArray DataTables()) We will use the above Fill Method to start loading Data from Particular Record Number and Limit the SQLDataAdapter to load only 20 or 30 Records, as per our Page Size.

To implement it professionaly, we will create another Fill Method in our TableAdapter Class (using Partial Class) as,

Partial Class LargeDataTableAdapter
    Public Function FillByDataAdapterPaging(ByRef LargeDataDataTable As LargeDataSet.LargeDataDataTable, ByVal PageNumber As Integer, ByVal PageSize As Integer) As Integer
        Dim StartRow As Integer
        StartRow = ((PageNumber - 1) * PageSize)
        Me.Adapter.SelectCommand = Me.CommandCollection(0)
        If (Me.ClearBeforeFill = True) Then
            LargeDataDataTable.Clear()
        End If
        Dim returnValue As Integer = Me.Adapter.Fill(StartRow, PageSize, LargeDataDataTable)
        Return returnValue
    End Function
End Class

Source Code:
LargeDataWithDataAdapterPaging.rar
Database:
TemporaryDB.rar
Note: Execute the ScriptToInsertBulkData.sql file (ziped inside the TemporaryDB.rar) to add the Fake Data