Just curious, maybe I missed this, but what version of Firebird are you
using?

I used to have very long connects when connecting from IBO or any
connectivity tool when using FB 1.03.

Once I upgraded my customer to 1.53, connecting is just about instantaneous.

Kevin





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From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of John Costanzo
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 12:55 PM
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IBO] Long delay when 1st connecting to database



Hello:

I tried using IB_SQL and IBCONSOLE. Both have the same 30 second
delay so it obviously not an application problem. I have not read
the TechInfo sheet on writing client/server applications because
this is simply a local application. Since there is no network
involved my assumption was that it really didn't matter what
happened on the "server" since the entire application is on one
machine. However, I will read the TechInfo sheet. There are only 1
queries in the application and I honestly think that 30 is a long
time for such a small application but I suppose I can live with 30
seconds. 30 seconds sure beats 4 minutes!

Thanks for the help

--- In IBObjects@yahoogrou <mailto:IBObjects%40yahoogroups.com> ps.com,
Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

>
> At 12:11 AM 15/08/2006, you wrote:
> >Hello Hellen:
> >
> >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?
>
> Particularly don't open datasets at startup. This isn't
> Paradox. Hold off opening any datasets until they are actually
> needed. There's a thing that happens called "Prepare" that,

unlike

> in Paradox, actually interacts with the server. It fetches over

all

> of the metadata of your queries. If there are lots of them, it
> wouldn't be out of the park for it to take 30 seconds.
>
> Have you read the TechInfo sheet on writing client/server

applications?

>
> Helen
>

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