I can't answer the question. All I can do is talk about my experience. We saw a significant performance gain when we tried it. We actually got the suggestion from Kevin McNeish, but I can't explain why it worked.

JIm

>>Sorry but I'm not following neither you or Jim. Why do you expect the data access to be faster through ADO if all the processing is done on workstation anyway?
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>That's the main point. How can I ensure, that the processing is indeed done on the server and not on the workstation? Is it possible at all in VFP?