Hello everybody,

I'm new to IBObjects and to this list.

I just converted my program over to the IBOBjects Tdataset module. It was
amazingly fast and easy! I was so excited about jumping back on it today
that I was up before the crack of 11 AM!

My questions:

1) How can I reintroduce the "SQL Hourglass" behavior that I got with BDE
components? Now I don't get an hour glass. In most places I can set
Screen.Hourglass but I have a few databound grids with huge datasets that
grind a bit when scrolling and get no hour glass at all.

2) How much of a performance gain would I get by converting my executed SQL
statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) that are currently in the Tquery
equivalent into the component (I forget what it's called) with the "low
overhead" SQL components.

3) Please give me some pointers on indexing to increase efficiency. During
most of my career as a corporate programmer we had a DBA who took care of
the database stuff like this. Now I'm on my own. Is setting up foreign key
contraints important for performance or just for data integrity? What's a
good place to learn about stored procedures?

Like for example right now if I delete a Billing Number (like an invoice) in
my system, I first delete the billing items, and before that the payments
towards each item (it's medical related so payments are for individual
items)...and I do this in my client program by executing delete statements.
Is this something that should be done on the server (I seem to recall
something about ON DELETE CASCADE from my database class in college).

On the other hand if I move functionality to the server then I am going to
be more tightly attached to firebird. Is this a good bet?

Thanks,

Anthony