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Domino 7 Application Development

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Domino 7 Application Development

Overview of this book

Written by Lotus insiders, the book provides a practical guide to developing applications making use of the important features and enhancements introduced in Notes/Domino 7. These experienced experts use their own experiences to map out the benefits you could gain, and the dangers you may face, as you develop Domino applications in your business. Written by specific experts, edited and overseen by Lotus content generator Dick McCarrick, this book is the definitive guide to developing Domino 7 applications. TECHNOLOGY Domino is an application server that can be used as a standalone web server or as the server component of IBM's Lotus Domino product which provides a powerful collaborative platform for development of customized business applications. It also provides enterprise-grade email, messaging, and scheduling capabilities.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Domino 7 Application Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Free Chapter
1
A Short History of Notes and Domino

Chapter 9. Optimizing Application Performance

For many years, we, the authors, worked in the support organization at Lotus (and then IBM), helping customers troubleshoot and work around their performance problems. Most often, we found that if the customer had had a bit more knowledge about coding for performance and understood a little better how Domino works, they could have avoided their performance problems entirely.

In this chapter, we will cover three areas that significantly impact on your applications: database properties, views, and forms/agents.

Database Properties

In this section, we look into two database properties of particular interest to performance Unread Marks and Optimize Document Table Map.

Unread Marks

In real-world installations, there is a substantial penalty in large databases for having Unread Marks enabled. So if your application doesn't use them, turn this feature off at the database level. To do this, open the database and select File|Database|Properties, then open...