Subject Re: [IBO] Long delay when 1st connecting to database
Author John vd Waeter
Maybe set the SchemaCachedir-property in connectioncomponent?

John


John Costanzo wrote:
> Hello Hellen:
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> Changing the suffex helped. I changed it to .IB and now instead of
> 4 minutes it only takes 30 seconds. Howeverm 30 seconds is a long
> delay and I suspect many of my cliends will complain. Is there
> anything else I can do to spped up connection time?
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> Thanks
>
>
> --- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
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>>At 11:15 PM 14/08/2006, you wrote:
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>>>Hello:
>>>I am trying to convert some Paradox applications to IBO. All
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> works
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>>>great except that the 1st time I connect to the database there is
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> a
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>>>long delay (around 4 minutes). The hard disc light flashes
>>>continuously. The 1st application I converted has a table with
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> over 3
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>>>million records to I thought that was the problem so I converted
>>>another applicaion that has a tables with less that 100 records
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> but
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>>>the same delay. This only happens the 1st time the database is
>>>connected. If I exit the application and restart it all works
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> fine
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>>>but if I turn the system of and on and then restart the
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> application
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>>>the long delay happens.
>>>The only thing I cound think of was that all records were being
>>>fetched but the queries have AutoFetchAll set to False so I am
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> lost. I
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>>>am using IBO4 , P4 @ 2.4Ghz, XP Pro, 250Gb hard drive, Delphi 7.
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> Can
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>>>anyone assist.
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>>What's the suffix of your database file? If ".gdb" then change it
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> to
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>>".ib" or ".fdb" because you are encountering a well-known issue
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> with
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>>XP's SystemRestore feature - it locks a ".gdb" file as soon as it
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> is
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>>opened and creates a file image of it. (The first connection to a
>>database is the one that causes the IB or Firebird Superserver to
>>open the file....and XceedinglyPainful to do its stuff...)
>>
>>Helen
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