>hi Cetin,
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>May be I found the curlprit.
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>My laptop AMD athlon 1400 has a damn slow hd(dont know i/o or seek time) with 128 mb ram and XP home. When ever i run the sql queirs the hd lights up and takes many secs to turn off and untill then the system is unresponsive or very slow . even switching between the applications is slow. May be i was misled by that .
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>I have found that the sql causes that behivariour and not Xbase.
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>suhashegde

Suhas,
I don't know of original problem. I simply got the question as "is xBase always faster". There are places where xBase prefarable over SQL but there are places for just the reverse.
With SQL HDD lights going on and staying like that + unresponsive after sometime suggests it's doing a lot of disk swap and system resources are low (and VFP wise SQL might be something not optimized - ie: an unintentional full join instead of inner).
Do you have a specific SQL or xBAse code causing headache?
Cetin