You gotta stop routing calls through that DataSheep 2000 server, dude, I been tellin' you that...
Seriously I seem to recall that linked VFP DBC's were slow even in SQL 2K. Since this is a function of the OLE-DB provider, I'm not sure that it can be sped up much. I haven't tinkered with it lately though.
Meanwhile shoot me an email at home, we should catch up.
Dan LeClair
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