Frans, I am saving a large file to the database (this is for testing, the app won't save large files). By large, I mean 127 megs (shame on me).

Anyways, saving the record took quite some time, but retrieving it went much much quicker (around 10-15 seconds). I was just wondering if there was a specific reason for this? Thanks!

My wild guess is that when you saved it, your database system had to increase the filesize of the database data file, which can take quite some time