>I removed any STR() in any indexes from the two tables involved ( and checked the code pages - they were the same) and I still have the same issue. Tamar suggested Rushmore levels and I got:
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>Level for A : none
>level for B : none
>joining A & B (cartesian product)
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>Not sure what to do now because when I join A(member table) to the contact table it seems to work fine. However, when I join A to B (comments table) the slow down happens. I even removed all indexes from B except the basic index on member number and no change.
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>Any suggestions?
>

Kelly,

Can you post your select and indexes (including key expressions) you expect query to use for optimizaton?
BTW, what SYS(3054,11) returns in VFP8?