I have to agree with Jochem there, I have run my own tests on occasion
and have yet to see any substantial benefit one way or another.

--- Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:22 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: ODBC vs. OLEDB


Scott Van Vliet wrote:

> I have always heard that connecting to a SQL Server database is faster

> through OLEDB, rather than using an ODBC DSN.  However, after testing 
> my app against the two methods, I found that the page processing time 
> was almost identical (with ODBC even being faster at times!).


Page processing time is a bad way to measure this. Try 
cfquery.executiontime to get better statistics. As to the validity of 
the statement that oledb is faster as odbc: I don't know.

Jochem

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