I don't understand your question "Would ADO be faster without object instantiation?".

I don't think that ADO would be slower.


>I just thought of automation, first.
>Would ADO be faster without object instantiation?
>The slow part has turned out to be accessing the field values.
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>Thanks,
>Terry
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>>>Can someone please tell me why the following is failing?
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>>>o=createobject("DAO.DBEngine")
>>>I have tried to register w/regsvr32 dao3032.dll and get a fail, since I have Access97 installed and it probably is already registered.
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>>>Using the object browser on dao2535.tlb I get dbengine is a member of DAO.
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>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>TIA
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>>Why are you using DAO not ADO?