Hi Hank.

>dBCX2 is apparently faster, but it's not faster than a straight SEEK.

Actually, it is, since that's pretty much what it's doing now -- it does a SEEK into a cursor to determine which manager is responsible for a given property, then that manager does a SEEK into its meta data table for the specified object. That's one of the reasons why DBCX 2 is so much faster than the original was.

Doug