Most efficient way to iterate through a QSqlQuery result set?

Question

I'm querying a remote MSSQL Server database using QODBC and I have a result set returned but it appears as though it sends a query to SQL Server for each record one by one. This is really slow for iterating a result set. Running the query from Qt, it takes roughly 15 seconds to complete. I ran the same query in SQL Server Management Studio and it takes 1 second to return results. Here's the code I'm using:

QString connectionTemplate = "DRIVER={SQL SERVER};SERVER=server;DATABASE=db;";
QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QODBC3", "db");
db.setDatabaseName(connectionTemplate);
db.setUserName("user");
db.setPassword("password");

if (db.open()) {
    qDebug() << "OK!";
    QSqlQuery * query = new QSqlQuery(db);
    query->exec("SELECT [UserName]"
                "  FROM [dbo].[Users]");


    while(query->next())
    {
        QString userName = query->value(0).toString();
        qDebug() << userName;
    }

    db.close();
}
else {
    qDebug() << db.lastError().text();
}

Is there any way to capture the entire result set into memory and loop through it in memory? I'd rather not have the application take so long to iterate through a result set.

Answer 1

I figured out how to improve the speed of iterating through the results. I had forgotten that I needed to first prepare the sql before executing and setForwardOnly must be set to true.

QSqlQuery * query = new QSqlQuery(db);
query->setForwardOnly(true);
query->exec("SELECT [UserName]"
            "  FROM [dbo].[Users]");