Hi Mike. Thanks for your answer. I ran into this same article today by chance....and enjoyed what I read. It seems quite annoying that the SQL Server CE team haven't implemented UpdateBatchSize as SQL Anywhere from Sybase has. Still I'll have to live with it.... I guess I'll have a bit of a rewrite to do, so that this works. Still a 10x performance increase would be really great. Thanks Martin

Thanks for the suggestions..... Sofar I've been to Waikato Uni (Hamilton) in NZ and Osnabrück Uni (Lower Saxony) in Germany. I studied Computer Technology & German in NZ and whatever matching in Osnabrück. I love Network programming and driver design, but I want to work in Austria (not Australia) later. I'm not sure if the Austrian market is the place to be a driver designer (America would be better?), but maybe my assumption is wrong there. In my 2 years of work experience in Germany I haven't had much need for driver design or network programming (unfortunately) and its been more my generic IT knowledge and programming skills that have kept me going. P.S. definitely wouldn't do a CogSci or AI programme. Any more suggestions guys? Thanks Martin