>>If you want to offload processing to your server, write a COM object and invoke it via DCOM, and pass your data back as ADO recordserts or XML.
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>Here's a less high-tech way, you don't need to set up DCOM for it.
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>http://www.lespinter.com/Articles/English/215.htm

This is an interesting idea, but Les seems to have a bias against SQL Server. Toward the end, he writes:

"And it will almost certainly be faster than SQL server would."

I have been pretty happy with SQL Server 7's speed.