How to prevent Delphi ADO from loading the entire table into memory?

Question

I am not a Delphi programmer, but I I got an old Delphi 7 application that I need to fix and it is using ADO.

The database table (MS Accesss) contains +100,000 rows and

Answer 1

You could use TADOQuery to limit the result set with a sql query. Or you could use TADOTable and set the CursorLocation to a Server side cursor to prevent the client loading the complete resultset in memory.