Specifies whether all records will be loaded from the linked DataSet, or only records visible on the screen will be loaded.

property BufferRecords: Boolean read FBufferRecords write SetBufferRecords default False;

If set to False, upon the DataSet activation only records shown in the component are loaded. New records are loaded upon user scrolling the component.

Remarks

Setting this property to True is only recommended for local or smaller datasets. In this mode the grid acts more like a standard (non data aware) grid so sometimes it may be the better choice.