>>>When filtering, reccount() will always return the true record count while ignoring the filter. Might I suggest an sql into a cursor and then an _tally to verify that you have one record.
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>>Why not just use COUNT? Set the filter and COUNT. A rushmore optimized count is FAST.
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>How's this for speed...
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>LOCATE FOR .T.
>IF EOF()
>*...table is empty
>ENDIF

Would it be all that much faster than a count? I am not too sure.