Daniele wrote:

>My application store and retrive some blob (text or graphics) in a table.
>
>Sometimes first fetch of a blob field is very sloow (1-2 min) the other
>times fetch is reasonably fast also
>on same first record (so isn't a data record problem).
>
>Why this strange behaviour?
>
>D7 + IBX7.08 + FB1.5 RC7

I don't know, and it's certainly not a common experience. Could you give
us an exact sequence of what is done in that first fetch? For example:

connect
read some stuff
read a blob

There are cases where the connect is slow - and there are ways around that.

Regards,


Ann