VBA: Querying Access with Excel. Why so slow?

Question

I found this code online to query Access and input the data into excel (2003), but it is much slower than it should be:

Sub DataPull(SQLQuery, CellPaste)
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Answer 1

I used your code and pulled in a table of 38 columns and 63780 rows in less than 7 seconds - about what I'd expect - and smaller recordsets completed almost instantaneously.

Is this the kind of performance you are experiencing? If so, it is consistent with what I'd expect with an ADO connection from Excel to an MDB back-end.

If you are seeing much slower performance than this then there must be some local environment conditions that are affecting things.