[CQ-Contest] Forum topic

[Steve Dyer]

These days that's a pretty small data set. It fits in memory easily and 
if I recall, each complete run only takes a minute or two. I saw a 
presentation about it somewhere from K5ZD.
This is not trivializing the programming, it's just not a scale problem 
anymore.
73,
Steve
W1SRD

On 8/15/2021 14:54, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> Has anyone ever done a Dayton forum or online forum on contest log
> checking?  In briefly chatting with KL9A regarding the number of logs that
> get submitted (over 1,000 in some NAQP events), it dawned on me that it
> requires a little computing power to have a database of 2,500,000 QSOs
> (assuming 1,000 logs with an average of 250 QSOs per log for NAQP) or a
> database of 25,000,000 QSOs (assuming 5,000 logs and an average of 500 QSOs
> per log for CQWW).
>
> How long does the log checking actually take and what database programs are
> used these days?
>
> 73 Rich NN3W
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