Well...you gotta work with the tools available. This server is much faster than the DataRabbit 2003 server, but not much <g>.

>You gotta stop routing calls through that DataSheep 2000 server, dude, I been tellin' you that...
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>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.
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>Meanwhile shoot me an email at home, we should catch up.