variously telling me that it would take 35 minutes or 11 days ... [snip] ... but I'm not going to wait 11 days to find out

Aaah ... ever the pessimist.

Maybe the DB2 addins for Visual Studio (32MB) are all that would be needed?

Aaah ... ever the optimist.
;-)

I'll start with the 32MB download and see how it goes.

Cheers,
Rob