J.,

Maybe we've reached thepoint onprocessor speed that even (formerly) significant PROCESSING differences are now negligible.

Just a thought

Jim Nelson

>>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.
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>>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.
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>I can see your point about COM versus C-based DLL but still my tests have shown that OLEDB is slightly faster in retrieving data. The following code is a simple test that I ran some months ago:
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Local lcStr, lnHan, oCn, oRS, lnRes, lnStart
>
>lcStr = "Driver=SQL Server;Server=myServer;Database=myDB;Trusted_Connection=Yes"
>lcOLEDB = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;"
>lcOLEDB = lcOLEDB + "Initial Catalog=myDB;Data Source=myServer"
>
>oRS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
>oCn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
>*-- ADO times
>oCn.CursorLocation = 3
>oCn.Open(lcOLEDB)
>lnStart = Seconds()
>oRS = oCn.Execute("Select * From inpart")
>? "ADO took (seconds): ", Seconds() - lnStart
>oRS.Close
>oCn.Close
>*-- SPT times
>lnHan = SQLStringConnect(lcStr)
>lnStart = Seconds()
>lnRes = SqlExec(lnHan, "Select * From inpart")
>? "SPT took (seconds): ", Seconds() - lnStart
>Use In sqlresult
>SqlDisconnect(lnHan)

>Now I wouldn't say this is the definitive way to tell which one is faster, but it should give you an idea of the data retrieval times. I tested with several tables of varying sizes and only on small tables was SPT faster or equal to ADO using the OLEDB provider.
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>If you see some flaws in the code above by all means point those out, maybe I am missing something obvious on the SPT code. Notice that I am not setting any special options on either the ADO or SPT code, other than the cursor location of the ADO connection object.