What I meant is that the technology behind OLEDB is slower than ODBC. To justify what I said, OLEDB is a set of COM servers, while ODBC is a C-based API. ODBC is more direct, while OLEDB is more indirect. However, OLEDB is more flexible than ODBC.

You said you wrote a VFP program to access SQL data using an OLEDB provider. That means you're using ADO, which wraps a COM object model around the OLEDB provider which is also a COM object. I can't imagine that would be faster than accessing that same data using ODBC directly from a VFP view or SPT statement. Is that what you're saying, that it is indeed faster? Obviously, this will be news to me.