Bullocks.

ODBC is too generic an interface. Use an OLEDB provider:

http://www.zstyle.dp.ua/files/ibfree5.zip

Using that in VB/ADO is just as fast as using Delphi components.

Jason

> ODBC is rather slow - some years ago i did compare for an
> Delphi-Application accessing MDB files by ODBY and by DAO, using DAO
> was significantly faster.
>
> ADO/OLEDB seems to have poor performance too. But there are
> significant differences in the OLEDB drivers available.
>
> The best performance in combination VB/FB is to write an DLL driver to
> interface the FB-API efficiently. This is much more performant than
> using OLEDB.
>
> Elmar

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