At 08:22 PM 25/07/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:29:27 +0000 (UTC), obrockmann wrote:
>
> > We had a firebird server running smoothly on a windows 2000 server
> > machine with 2 xeon cpus. this machine was upgraded to windows 2003.
> > however the time it takes to attach to a database has increased by a
> > factor of 3 and has become unstandable for the users.
> > ...

To get back to the main issue and away from religious wars, why colour
depth could possibly be important on a database server or how many angels
can stand on the head of a pin...

Since your move was was win2k to win2003, did you address the problem of
SystemRestore? Does the long connection time affect all users or just the
first to connect? What is the name of your primary database file?

heLen