This can help to speed the task, I will check about that.

Thanks

>>I wish the have the advice from people who move to sql server and if this is true.
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>>Michel
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>Have you considered building a COM server to do this task? The com server will run on the server where the data is, so there will be no issue with the network.
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>There was an article in FoxTalk about this a year or so ago, and their wait times went down considerably if I remember correctly.
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>BOb
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>PS: Why not set up MSDE on a machine and give it a try. How intensive are the calculations/etc?