>>>>>>I have install SQLExpress2008 on a WS2003 with 2 Gb RAM (development machine)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>When I run a query against a table with 100.000 records from the Microsoft SQl Server Managent studio:
>>>>>> [ Select top 1000 from sometable ]
>>>>>>It returns the results in less than a second.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>But when I run the same query from VFP
>>>>>> [ sqlexec(nHandle, "Select top 1000 from sometable ", "cur") ]
>>>>>>It takes for ever, more than 15 seconds.
>>>>>>What is the problem ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Where is your ORDER BY clause in the above statement? As far as I recall, TOP is not optimizable (I'll double check).
>>>>
>>>>Same performance WITH/WITHOUT order by clause
>>>
>>>If you're using TOP clause you MUST specify ORDER BY. What is your SQL Server version? Check the message I pointed you too and Kevin Goff's suggestion - may be worth a try.
>>
>>Same performance WITH/WITHOUT order by clause
>>But why this performance difference between SSMStudio and VFP client connection ?
>
>Try
>
>select top 1000 ID from Sometable Order by ID - what would be the performance?
>
>Try also
>
>select myFields from SomeTable tablesample (1000 rows)

No. the same problem.
I run the query for an other table with 1200 rows without the TOP clause. The same problem very very slow.
It seems to me that has to do with the connection or the server or the computer setup.
The same tasks wark fine on a production environment LAN.