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

use adoquery If you do not need any row and just want insert new row use sql command like this 'select * from myTable where id=-1' Since Id is autonumber no rows will return . or 'select * from myTable where 1=-1' But I think it is not good way for Insering data. Using adocommand is sure much better.

if you want X rows 'select top X * from myTable '