Hi Jeff,

I don't understand where your problem is PHP related, (i.e. there is C++
code sample).
Perhaps your questions are better related to Firebird support or
Firebird general.
Search in http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=lists for lists if you
don't find them.

Ciao.
Mimmo.

Jeff Dunlap ha scritto:

> Last year I wrote my first FB application (a web application) and it suffers a short delay each time the application selects data to display.
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> The bottleneck was due to the fact that I would connect to the database, select my data, then disconnect.
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> Yesterday, I began writing a test application that obtains data the very same way as described above. I noticed that the connect process is very expensive. Too expensive to use in a web application when nearly instant results are desired.
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