OK. Gave it a try in the "FAST" MySQL -> out of the box: 50 sec on the same machine. Silly. MySQL is ridiculously :laugh:

Switching from InnoDB engine to MyISAM at least improves it to 18 sec. Only twice as slow as SQL Server (anyway: MyISAM is not a suitable engine at all...)

The SUPER DUPER InMemory engine ... forget it: 33 seconds

Done with MySQL ...