>Very good point, Vin. Ben, this may be a good option for you.
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>>But, Benoit, I have worked with ADO in VB updating VFP tables of about that size and I have not seen such a dramatic slowdown as you report on updating... so in addition to everything that John has mentioned, I think something else, in the code, may also be going on...
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>>Finding that issue, if I am right and one exists, may buy back enough speed to make it worthwhile to hold on until the VFP OLEDB provider becomes available... or maybe not...

Absolutely. Thanks for your time.