>Dear All,
>
>In a screen which I have to populate a grid with a few thousand (let say 4K) records, it takes more than normal to show the screen on the desktop.
>Is there a way to enhance the response of this by populating the grid first with f.i. 100 records, show the screen and then finish populating the grid?
>DB backend is ORACLE 9iR2
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.

This *might* help....
Open view in the view designer...
On menu click Query/Advanced Options
...in the popup window there is an option for "number of records to fetch at a time"...try selecting that in putting in something like 100.