Stephen Boyd wrote:

>The slow / fast happens in random order.
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bah !

Couldn't you make it a bit easy ? :-)

serious, don't know what to think about it.

I have remembered a thing I read on the FB 2.0 release notes.

I have no idea if it has any relation to what you are facing, but I will
just tell it.

Nickolay fixed a race condition that make the server stalls until
another packet come from the network, could you try to execute your
query and when it get slow try to run another query in another isql
window to see if the second connection unlock the first one ?

It is a big shot in the dark... and could be completelly non-sense...
but give it a try.

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br