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>Then I have seen some of the DB/code work done by PB/Sybase people. Disorganized, over-normalized DBs, SQL with twenty gazillion joins, thousands of stored procedures (some probably doing overlapping work), poor-indexing strategy, heavy reliance on ODBC...these are some of the problems, I'm sure, stuff you just know is going to slow things down - generally poor design work.
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Design is everything! You have the upper hand, are are probably a one man shop or just a few people below you? They are a huge corporation (vendor who sold it) trying to generate a good revenue stream.

>Sounds like your situation is the opposite, where the vfp is not optimally designed, but the PB/Sybase is...as I said to Dorris, Peoplesoft seems to have done a good job with performance, despite other problems, so I'm sure it's possible to build fast apps using either tool...

I am using a control that was designed some 20 years ago and recently ported to active-x.

It would have been better if they got a fresh look at how to pull data needed today.

__Stephen