Alan,

This might be related to the reason the fastdoevents article over on my website works.

Does the query run fast without mouse motion if you have SET TALK OFF?

>What's going on with this:
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>I USE a remote ORACLE view (very simple extract), which pulls down a whack of records (a few million).
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>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.
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>Then I wiggle the mouse, and the odometer briefly jumps to life. Intrigued, I give it another wiggle. Amazing, it speeds up again.
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>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.
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>My complaints are twofold:
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> a) I look like a dork doing this,
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> b) It is physically tiring.
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>Can someone please explain this paranormal experience. No joke.
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>Running Win NT, VFP 6.0