>>Long enough for thermometer to appear, I believe.
>>Do you want me to add time stats to measure?
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>My guess would be that during the first run VFP caches data wich causes subsequent queries to run faster.
Right, but still it is not fast enough. In other words, I'm looking on the screen and nothing happens for ~20 seconds.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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