>I suppose these are not your apps here. But wouldn't this be an opportunity for the save as XML option? Haven't used it myself, but the books say that a recordset saved as XML is just a formatted string that you can pass around as if it was a bona fide recordset object.

No there not my apps.

But that's what we did basically. Exporting to XML is worthless since the ADO
XML format is more or less proprietary and horrible to work with. But you can
stream a recordset with rs.Save() and rs.Load() which is actually very fast.

But you loose all connection of the rs to the data source when you do that.