Actually, it turns out I was wrong. The aforementioned collection of metadata seems to be an implicit operation that takes place as soon as the very first statement is being executed (after having established the connection). So I encountered the same symptom, yet for a totally different reason...

However, in my "real life" project it was the excessive use of several TIB_StringProperties (ColumnAttributes, FieldsDisplayFormats and FieldsDisplayLabels) that caused the long preparation times. Too bad I can't use them the way I intended to, but I guess I can cope with that! ;)


Greetings
Thomas