Walter

>Can you do the same test again, but make the resulttest 10 times as large ?
>I'd be most interested to see the difference.
>
>I guess that the difference between VFP and C# would increase as the C# solution seeks sequential and the VFP sulution seeks in a B-tree.

Since adding more records to the employees table there are now many superiors with superiors and so on so the tests are a bit more involving than before:

Language          Records          Time (secs)

VFP               10,000            0.361
C#                10,000            0.600
VFP               100,000           8.392
C#                100,000           13.430
VFP               200,000           18.737
C#                200,000           29.092

Kev