> Put open/close actions in a loop executing a couple of thousand times.
>
> > I see no reason to put a timer on it. but go ahead and I'll try your
> code
>
> I certainly agree with you that fetching records in 1 ms or 21 ms
> isn't noticeable, and it is certainly irrelevant in a multi-tier app
> over a WAN. And if Glenn must wait for 21 seconds before records are
> all fetched then the first thing to look at is the design of
> dataretrieval.
>
> Nevertheless everybody wants his favorite components to be fast.
>

I that's what your app needs to do (i.e. connect/disconnect continuously)
why don't you just enhance subsequent connects by caching the schema data?
Alan