You are most likely running into metadata queries. It might be possible to
put an index on your metadata that could speed this up. Another route would
be to use a schema cache file so that instead of getting the information it
needs from the server it will just pull it out of a local text file. This is
a property on the TIBODatabase component or TIB_Connection component.

HTH,
Jason Wharton

-----Original Message-----
From: Marv cook [mailto:mjcook@...]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 7:32 AM
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBO] IBOQuery Prepare


Hi all,

I am accessing a Firebird (1.5) DB across a very slow connection (375k)
and when I prepare a TIBOQuery it takes 7 seconds. Seems very long. A
TIB_Query takes about 1 second. Is there any way to avoid the prepare
each time the program starts up?

TIA

Marv