>when I first started VFP year ago, someone told me that in VFP, Locate is faster than Seek, since then I used locate all over my app. Now I'm planning to move my database from .dbf to MySQL, I wonder if the samething also apply to MySQL.
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>regards,
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>Jerry

Where SEEK/SEEK()/INDEXSEEK() are applicable they are rapid more and more of LOCATE

With MySQL direct commands don't exist for the data,
but only declarations to be sent to the mySQL data Engine.