I am trying to pull in over 40 tables with anywhere from 2 to 10 thousand records, from across a network. As you can probably guess this process is rather slow. About an hour and a half. I have tried using the transferDatabase method, then I thought maybe it would be faster if I ran a query on the external databases. I have tried and append query and a make table query but they do not help much. Are there any other alternatives for making this any faster. The hardest questions always have the easiest answers.