>>Where are these objects residing? On a Client form (ASP PAGE) and a 2nd tier on an internet server?
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>>The volume of data that you are looking at was not intended for XML in todays environment. Sorry but 5000 transactions as wide as you were interested in will blaot. Maybe ADO instead? It has to be faster.
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>I'm pretty much in the beginning stage of learning xml, so bear with me.
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>Both FedEx and UPS have xml tracking. They say you can search for tracking #'s up to 365 days old. That is millions or 100's of millions of records. Doing an xml search takes a couple seconds.
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>Am I missing something?

You bet - the XML transport is only the result sets; the queries are serviced on large data server engines behind the data tier; you never get to see the hundreds of millions of transaction records in your app.