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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Hello friends.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I have been struggling with mapserver and ArcSDE,
OracleSpatial and combinations of those. As you maybe have seen from my latest questions,
I&#8217;m using MapScript in csharp. It has been some work to solve my problems
but now I think I have reached I level of satisfaction. But, I have one BIG question.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>When a query attributes with QueryByAttribute there
is one situation when the performance is bad, and that&#8217;s when I don&#8217;t
set the extent for the mapObj. In that case, the whole global extent will be
used and in combination with a attribute query the performance is week. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>In this case, I don&#8217;t care of the extent I should
appreciate if the extent only is used when I want it to be used. I have looked
at </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>msSDELayerWhichShapes </span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>(there
is a similar for OracleSpatial) and the rect argument will always have a value.
Wouldn&#8217;t be nice if the rect could be null (and not used) if I haven&#8217;t
told it to be used. Either that, or another function with no rect argument,
which only queries attributes. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Maybe you think, why not communicate directly with
the database. The answer to that is that I want one interface from my side, and
that I want the help MapServer could give to retrieve spatial information in a
query. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I hope you understand what I&#8217;m looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Johan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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color:black'>___________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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