Thanks for some ideas. I've downloaded the doc and will read up on this.

I'll dig and see if I can obtain the Sybase OLEDB provider....I'm not sure how much of...

Identical.

The queries can be a simple as:

SELECT * FROM FOO WHERE TimeStamp > '3/2/2006'

Run this in SQL ---> 10 minutes later get the data.

Run this in Access [using...

Thanks for the reply!

Tried both OpenQuery and OpenRowSet in SQL 200x and the net result is the same - the queries run slowly in SQL but run quickly in Crystal...