>One last point:
>What precisely does "abso-freakin-lutely forever" mean?
>There is not much point in soliciting help, if your queries currently take 20 seconds and that seems intolerable to you! What sort of improvement are you hoping for?
>Houston.

No, we're talking about queries that take much longer than that. One of them that I tested
yesterday took about 20 minutes on my local machine. The client estimates that what takes
20 minutes on my machine would take over 3 hours in the field. At the time I wrote the message
I didn't have those specifics but did know that queries in the field were taking at least a couple
of hours.