What is a better way to retrieve the ID of a matched individual in my database?

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I am currently getting the ID by a select statement through the database table.

result = profiledt.Select("Individual_ID = '" & nwindividual.Individual_ID & "'")
        profilerowstring = profiledt.Rows.IndexOf(result(0))

The issue with this is as the database gets larger the response times are increasing. There has to be a faster way to get the ID of the matched individual. Any suggestions?

What I have tried:

I have only have tried the select statement. Just started noticing a big increase in time once we made it to 200,000+ individuals.

Posted 22-Dec-19 14:16pm

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Updated 22-Dec-19 14:57pm

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2019-12-22T14:57:00

Solution 1

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I have only have tried the select statement. Just started noticing a big increase in time once we made it to 200,000+ individuals.

This is typical of a problem with index definition.
Need table definition and indexes to further analyze.

Posted 22-Dec-19 14:57pm

Patrice T