thanks for that info. After i made the changes, it looks like the query runs slower now. Even though the row size is 6kb and I dropped/rebuilt all indexes. Guess...

no. they are infrequently used columns

Doesnt work. I just get a rowset of n rows (n being the total records in the target table) of an insert statement with no columns and no data.

I converted this into proper OO C# and it runs great. I was able to get a score of 490. I found that the DNA strand you provided in the...