>Sorry, all of that is your opinion. Record oriented xbase coding is what is so yesterday. More people dance with the SQL lady than the xbase queen.

SQL is great for transacting with DBs that require it. VFP is cleaner with XBase. Without iterative (record pointer) skills the developer cannot feed an OCX.

If you're using SQL, when you have an opportunity to use SEEK, then you're denying yourself and your users the best that VFP can offer. SELECTS require a lot of resources. They clog the work area, they clog the TEMP folder. Lets say you SELECT into a coursor then iterate the cursor to feed OCX. Look at how many steps you're going through.

There is a little project in downloads that uses seeks - only has two files - do you think it could be made to perform better by substituting SELECTS for the SEEKs?

I think performance would be seriously degraded by switching to SELECTS. It would be interesting to see a side by side.