>>>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 ?
>>
>>What ODBC driver are you using in VFP?
>
>SQL Server Native Client 10.0

Did you post exact query or actual one is different?