Hi Kevin;
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>No relationships, no triggers and only 2 small stored procedures are in the DBC.
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Sounds reasonable.. If:

Opening 9 Foxpro for dos tables - 0.768s
Opening 11 VFP Tables - 1.508s




And, VFP's tables will take much time for:

Rushmore's setup (In your case. I believe, here is the guilty. But, don't punish him right now, he only makes this to increase considerably as any other database the time of INS, UPD and QUERY) :))
.CDX's setup
.DBC's setup (The proportion of the increase of the time won't be directly associated to the amount of codes in the stored procedures)


Claudio