> Have you tried connecting remotely using isql? (not WISQL, but
> command-line isql). It doesn't use the BDE, so at least you could
> establish whether it's the BDE that's your problem.
>

I closes to ISQL test is with the Server Manager program that comes
with Interbase that we used and this is where the 12 seconds
connection comes from. The Interbase Server is currently a Service,
and will make sense if I make it a application as this will let the
optimization done for *program* have a effect on it I geuss.

> I guess you are aware that you have to set the CPU affinity for one
> CPU? You can get a software tool for this, but it does mean you

have to

> run the server as an application.
>

Don't know yet about setting the CPU affinity for ONE CPU. All I have
dones is set the CPU and Memory for Programs.

> It could be just that the BDE doesn't work well on Win2003.

Borland

> deprecated the BDE after Delphi 5 and the half-hearted "upgrade"

that

> shipped with Delphi 6 was ...erm... not a bucket of thrills. The

Delphi 3

> BDE version is ancient - one of the very early 32-bit versions.
>

I believed it is Interbase related as its native tools takes 12
seconds to connect, But I will write a small testing application in
Delphi 5 and test this, thanks.