I thought asking you might save a little time, which is my question as well. Is there a way to speed up the connection to Oracle from FoxPro? I know I could set up my data environments to NODATA ON LOAD, but that is not practical for most of the users, who will have only limited (filtered) access. The develeopment server is slow, but my P400 work station still takes 5 minites to load data on startup, and that is just TOO slow, esp when considering most of my users will be running P166 boxes. A good example on the slowness is I am currently impoerting the original data from a non-normalised FP2.6 db to oracle 8, fully normalised table via a VFP prg, and it has taken 15 minites to do the first 65 of 1475 records!