>Hi Houston,
>You were so right, but I still get 12 seconds for Visual C++ and 8.472 seconds for VFP.
>
>Do you have any thoughts on this?

I would determine 3 times in your VC++ code:

1. how long does HRESULT hr = spCON->Open ( "", "", "", -1 ) take.
2. how long does creating the RecordSet take, and
3. how long does the Update take.

Those default arguments for spCON->Open may have performance implications. And also, I do not see where you are closing your connection, some work may still be buffered and closing the connection should be done before you determine the elapsed time.