Martin - http://support.microsoft.com/support/Access/Content/97DownLoads.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=1 is nice, in the white papers section(they're all self extracting .exe's - ugh) and specifically: http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/V35PERF.EXE talks about performance issues of the jet 3.5 db engine(which underneath all the fluff is what does all the work) other than that, its hard to find objective information martin burns wrote: > > Can anyone point me to a few URLs explaining just what Access' limitations are?