Same to me, may be its time to change to the new old-fashioned stuffs. It would be interesting to see what David F. say about it (he's the king of speed testing to me)

>you are welcome <s>

>what is interesting to me is, that the old 'store' command is faster then the '='. i never us 'store' because i don't like the redability in the code. i think it's easier to read/follow the code if '=' is used.

>>That's correct, it seems like a delay with RAND() function. Thank's for the Heads Up :-)