Michael,

M> When I start my application I do a select like this:

M> Select * from BonMaster;

M> In my little test database (12 Mb) this table contains NO records at
M> this time.

M> Using BDE it opened instantly.
M> Using IBO it takes a few seconds to open.

Most probably IBO is fetching some metadata info, which it does upon
connection opening (or - more precisely - upon first query execution,
I think). If this is the case, I don't think there's much you can do
other than using schema cache persistence (see the SchemaCacheDir
property documentation).

HTH
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