On 24 Jan 2006 at 16:47, David Suбrez wrote:

>Anyway, looks like page size is not affecting the result too much:
>backing up and restoring same database to 1024 and 16384 page sizes
>gives similar times for the test.

Try to set bigger segment size for your BLOB. 1 byte is too small.
Try 2000.
Usually applications don't use segment size anywhere but isql may
respect it and receiving BLOB byte-by-byte may be the source of
slowness.

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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.