>At 07:21 AM 5/19/00 -0700, Edward Flick wrote:
> >Excellent idea my friend I salute you for your valiant
> >efforts.

At 10:29 AM 5/19/00 -0400, Jim Starkey wrote:

>Not at all. Ann is making me do it. She looked at me mournfully
>and I wilted.

Not so! I bribed you, fair and square!

>I do have an alternate Interbase DSQL implementation I wrote
>to rescue a project when an unnamed Borland subsidiary totally
>broke DSQL around the time of V4. I'll probably toss that
>into the source tree sometime for yucks. [Note: a client
>side DSQL whomps server side any day.]

Not necessarily so. First, you have the metadata building
stuff, which turns a simple select * into dozens of calls.
Second, the remote interface is now tuned for DSQL and not
for send/receive. (I couldn't say that to your face.)

Ann