>>You did say at one point the whole thing took much longer and then suddenly it was much improved. I didn't notice if it was exclusive or not. Network traffic could be the culprit.
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>Something happened with the PC where this process was running, I think. I have no explanation for 2h. of running this process.
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>>Now, a difference of only 5 seconds seems to disprove the chunking theory. It would fit my thinking of there being only a difference in the number of executing lines of code. Small difference, but there. How many records are we talking about?
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>Just 2046 records to process.

Then there's no need to spend time optimizing this.