how does your 'quick and dirty' vbscript perform the operation?

you could use a 'for xml' query to get xml data out into an ado stream and write it to a file. you could also open the recordset directly and perform a .save with adpersistxml flag set. or you could use a shaped recordset and save that with .save as well if it's more complex. if i have to save a chunk of xml data i normally use the stream method if i'm using vbscript, but the rs.save method is pretty fast. i just normally end up having to re-style that for it to be useful for my needs.