>>>Is there a way to use our own status bar when running a query? I like the way the status window appears when I have set talk on and run a long query. I don't like the text that appears on my window saying how many records it found, etc... Is there a way to get a status bar without set talk on?
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>>In the files section there are a few thermometers. The one I use is from www.west-wind.com. In a SQL-select you would call a UDF which would update the thermo. Users swear that my queries run faster <s>.
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>Can you give me an example of where you would put the call the the UDF? Would it be within the SQL-Select statement?

I am not at work at the moment, so I won't be able to post a sample until Monday. the west wind thermo has good examples in its docs.