At 11:05 AM 22/07/2004 +0200, you wrote:

>Hello!
>
>Using IBO with FB1.5RC8 and Delphi4 I'm reading IBOQuery results into my own
>structures to manage them and display in ListView in virtual mode.
>
>I can read about 30000 records in 20secs (HD is not still, although enough
>memory could be available) but often there are more needed and I would
>really like to speed up. Executing IBOQuery.Open over a large DB (600000
>records) is much more faster than reading the result afterwards record by
>record. I also don't know any other way than to use the FieldByName()
>method, which might also be the case why it's not as fast as I would like.
>
>
>Please anybody has any suggestions how to speed up? But I definitely need to
>read the records into my own memory structures to manage/modify them later
>as fast as possible (no DB feedback is necessary then).

1. Use TIB_Cursor (no need for a scrolling dataset here)
2. Refer to the Fields array or the Row object, instead of FieldByName
3. Equip your workstations with very good UPSs.

Fields[n] or Fields['ColumnName']

Helen