>Peter,
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>seems the COM is the bottleneck. I've got some replies telling me about the SETS of the COM. SET COLLATE does affect the performance of the SELECT - SQL Command? What is its optimal setting?
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>Thus, I tried to test another COLLATE setting (SET COLLATE TO GENERAL), but the COM returns some No Support for this interface error.
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>What's going on?
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>[]'s,

Pablo, I'm afraid I can't help you on this.
I hope someone else can and will.

Peter