Timothy Madden wrote:

> Well, the OP seems to want his tables displayed in some grid control,
> which needs a scroll bar, and someone else reported an 8 milion rows
> table needs about 12s to get the row count.

Did you ever meet a real person that would use such application and
scroll through 8 million records?

If there should be any effort about that, it should be directed toward
improving that application and changing the user interface in such way
that 8mil. records are never fetched.

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