Thank you Lynn,

That worked perfectly without having to run for too long. Took only 7 seconds to return 250k records, I can deal with that.

Now I need to move on...

Thanks for the responses, yep as I read it back it seems a bit vague, here is the setup:

I have two tables, I want to exclude entries from the 1st...

I was thinking the same thing, just hoping that isn't the case.

Yep Checked the error log (see below), its the reason why I installed the 64 bit odbc excel driver.

When testing the connection it fails with this error : "ERROR [IM014]...