What's going on with this:

I USE a remote ORACLE view (very simple extract), which pulls down a whack of records (a few million).

As this query wends its idle way across the network back to me, I watch the odometer tick off the numbers 500, 600, 700 . . . and I think that this is going to take a very long time.

Then I wiggle the mouse, and the odometer briefly jumps to life. Intrigued, I give it another wiggle. Amazing, it speeds up again.

So now, like the (real) mouse at the pleasure bar, I keep the (plastic) mouse in motion and the odometer sails through my query at 50 times idle speed. I find that a steady circular motion is the easiest to maintain.

My complaints are twofold:

a) I look like a dork doing this,

b) It is physically tiring.

Can someone please explain this paranormal experience. No joke.

Running Win NT, VFP 6.0