>Two last things come to mind...

>- a memory issue on the server

>What happens if you change page buffers?

>- a disk issue on the server

>What happens if you leave the original file on the server and try a copy of the database

>on a different disk location

>on a different disk

>on a different computer?

>Just thinking along... there must be a bottleneck somewhere....

>John

_John, I’ve tested on 3 different machines, the clients server, my own PC, and our companies cloud server. The same behavior happens exactly the same.