Hi,

At June 26, 2003, 06:32, Milan Babuskov wrote:

> Louis Louw wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> songlist.ID is a primary key and I just make an index for
>> categorylist.songID as well as songlist.date_played and date_artist_played
>>
>> This made the query execute in 2.4 seconds. A lot better...
>> But still not near the 0.1sec I'm used to with MySQL :(

> Are you sure it's "query execution time" ?

> If you're doing connect + exec query, then it's probably the difference
> between connection time. Firebird needs a sec or even more to establish
> connection,

With FB 1.5 RC3, it's shorter than that. It's almost instantaneous.
The bottleneck is in Firebird's protocol, it talks too much between
the client and the server when preparing the DML/DDL statements. A
revision of the protocol is planned for FB 2.0, to figure out how the
protocol can be improved.

> Perhaps you can put timestamping code right after connect so you can
> measure the speed of the query itself precisely...

I would suggest timestamping the code after the prepare phase, to
compare the time it takes to retrieve the data.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)