> Moreover, I can see that during the delays, the *outbound* link from the client is clicking over about 1 kbps for the entire period. It *appears* that the client is dribbling out information that the server is waiting on, although I can't imagine what it is.

The client does fetch the resultset row by row. The Time sould be
determined more by the size of result than by the complexity of query.

What Version of FB do you use on Server and on client?

Elmar