Thanks
Jason, Helen, TST for the BLOB solutions. Special thanks for Helen for the
link update.

One more doubt.

If I retrive data from a table which has, say 300000 records into a IB_Grid
(Fetchwholerows=false) I get some recordinitially and as I scroll through
the grid the other records are retrived.(Nice way to reduce Back end -
Front end traffic)

Can I control the number of records that is fetched first and shown ?
I feel that for my application I need to load 50 records (rather than 2000
or 5000 records) as quickly as possible and the remaining as the user
scrolls through.

Thanks
VigneZ