>>>>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?

Yes " post exact query ".