>Mike...
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>Your results deal with a customer base of 91 records. I don't think this constitutes a valid benchmark. How about something with 500,000 customers????? Then, I think we could get some meaningful results. Certainly, that would be predicated on reality....

What does the number of records in the backend table have to do with anything?

Unless there is something I'm missing in a big way, increasing the table size would affect all methods evenhandedly.