Hello Cetin, >>Have you ever done timing tests with this setup? How much slower is a SQL query with the updateprogress() embedded as opposed to one without it? Just curious as I'd like to do something like that but am afraid that I'd lose too much time. >Not to flatter you or someone else but isn't VFP default progress bar sufficient for SQL. With an SQL that would take time of course it might be little importance to include another time consuming process. What currently I do for such SQL(s) to set >talk on before and immediately set talk off. BTW, I do the same thing, just hate those ActiveX stuffs ;0