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>Why don't you use SEEK ? You will only need to index the view on cID...
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>seek this.value
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Well, it kept giving me a "Table has no index order set" error - and LOCATE didn't ;-). According to the help, LOCATE should do a Rushmore optimization on it anyways (and it's a small file). Those were the only >real< reasons I didn't.