About the only thing you might be able to do is break the queries down into smaller ones, and update the user between each - at least the user would know that something is happening.
>I have a client who is disturbed by the (not responding) message in the titlebar of the _screen object when a lengthy SQL statement is executing.
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>Anyone know off hand what registry key I can change to get rid of that message?
Wayne Myers, MCSD
Senior Consultant
Forte' Incorporated
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