>Take a look at faq #8150 SPT cursor fetching and progress displaying for SPT cursor downloading.
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Thanks. I am looking for a nice way to display record counts and never thought of the fetch size value to provide user feedback.

Back to my original problem with Synch/Asynch speed. I did notice a few things: Working against my SQL Server 2000 test data which contains no index optimization; the Asynch SQLExec()s where slow. However, running the same query against an Oracle 8i test data with index optimization resulted a similar time-to-output for both Asynch/Synch modes. In fact, I can hardly tell the difference!

IHMO, SQLExec()s are very much affected by the backend database optimization as well.