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>What is your back end? You can do select count(*) first, then the actual select. This is the approach we're using here. If you use VFP native database, you can implement something like:
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The database is VFP. I would have to compare your suggestion of count(*) first and then selecting vs. selecting with TOP nnn, to see which approach is faster. Thank you for the suggestion.
And thank you for the code to cancel the SQL Select. I will try it.
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