Paul,

>I was not using buffering. But wouldn't it be just doubling the work done by the batch update (when set to on for remote views)?

As stated in the Developers guide (page 587) you can optimize Updated performance by using Tablebuffering and batching the updates. You can play with the Batchupdatecount property, but i doubt that this property would be use by your Access ODBC driver.

Regards, Walter