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True, it's not fair. But then, if you want to be fair, you also have to include the "overhead" of the rest of the ODBC database... namely that you have to use WIndows. {grin}

SQLite is small, simple to install, and does the job quickly. Yes, it sucks at transaction start/end, because it's very simple... it's just locking the file as its communication system. But in nearly every other way, it fits this problem space quite nicely.

Life is a series of tradeoffs.

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