Slow TT issue SOLVED (i think)! (+ feature suggestion)

[domino66]

Making reference to this post I made that describes the problem.

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=9294&p=44052#p44052

I previously wrote that it was taking over 4 minutes for TT to find the tables and populate stats for Everest from my measly little 40,000 hand DB.

WELL, what was unknown to me at the time, (and i only found this out after inquiring about when TT was going to offer multi-DB support) was that TT ALREADY DOES offer multi-DB support >> it will automatically read from whatever DBs you have your HUD configured to read from.

Anyway, what happened is that i had my HUD currently set to read from 4 or 5 medium-sized DBs, one of which had not been clustered completely. So even in my post while i was claiming that i was only having TT draw stats from a tiny little 40,000 hand DB that i had just vac'd/clustered/analyzed, unbeknownst to me, it was still reading from several DBs, at least one of which was 1-million+ hand and had not been VCA'd. Once i removed the checks from the radio-boxes, so that ONLY those DBs that had been VCA'd were ticked, it worked fine.

THIS LEADS TO MY FEATURE SUGGESTION: I'm glad I got to the bottom of this (on my own, let the record show; support ticket has been open for 2 wks), it's actually not at ALL intuitive -- e.g. i consider myself somewhat of a PT 'poker-user', and even after figuring out what the problem was, I thought to myself: "this actually doesn't really make sense at all -- how would a 'reasonable' user even think that TT would just be drawing from the same DBs that the HUD was set to read from?". (Another problem that delayed the finding of a solution here: I don't even USE the HUD, b/c it's still way too buggy...so I had ticks in checkboxes next to several DBs in the 'configure HUD' menu from when i had been playing around with it trying to get it to work, but then after it became clear that it wasn't really ready for use yet, I just abandoned the 'configure HUD' menu and never bothered looking at it again, since I wasn't using the HUD...how could i possibly know that the database-configuration options i had set in that menu were still exerting control over other parts of PT3; namely TT.)
===>>> Anyway, feature suggestion: in the left-hand pane in the TT tab, where you currently have 2 sets of radioboxes, one for Sites: and one for Limits: simply add in a 3rd set called "Databases:" where there will be radioboxes from which you can tell TT which DBs you want it to draw stats from, and that will be INDEPENDENT from what DBs you're telling the HUD to draw from. This is FAR more intuitive IMHO.

[WhiteRider]

Thanks for letting us know, that's really useful.
..and for the suggestion.