John,

Yes I found the explanation.

>Took you long enough to figure out... lol...

>The "head-in-the-sand" crowd will never accept that you can do in .net what you can do in fox, sometimes more efficiently, sometimes less efficiently.

This test is not representative because the performance difference is probably caused by VFP in BOTH cases, the VFP select statement. Whether doing it natively in VFP or via ODBC or OLE DB it still runs VFP code.

On the .NET side there is nothing to very little data processing done on very small resultsets.

So far my "head-in-the-sand" opinion.

Walter,