> 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 ?

IBO only fetches the rows it needs to display data so you control it by how
big your grid is.

> 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.

If you want it to pull in that many records right off just set the
BufferRowNum to 50 and that will cause it to pull them in right then if they
are not already in the buffer.

Jason