Jim,

>I would stringly recommend that you get 7.0 of SQL Server, it is the version that made drastic changes in many of the negative issues related to SQL Server. Performance was one of those issues, 7.0 is much faster than 6.5 was.

Yeah, I'm aware that much has changed since 6.5. I've got no projects working with 7.0 and can't see any in the near future; I'd decided to wait until I need to. Maybe in this way i'm able to skip a version, saving money.

Walter,