Does anybody know why the timer events do not fire during an asynchronous SQLEXEC even though the commands in the loop that keeps issuing the command (checking for the complete return value) execute properly?

The problem is that the timer events seem to either backup or not fire at all during the sqlexec command. Sometimes these queries can approach an hour and I like to have an animation running to indicate the app is 'Alive'. When animating the icon frame by frame in the loop, the timing is irradic due to network traffic, system speed, etc. I thought a timer based animation would be best solution.