>>If I were writing this thing from scratch, I'd do as you suggest, but unfortunately, with only God knows how many lines of code existing in this app, I don't have that luxury. Do you think it's safe to count on tricking VFP the way I'm doing it?
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>No, it's not safe. Your results are not reliable.

You know... I was afraid you'd say that. ;)

For the record though, by 'not reliable', do you mean from run to run, or for future reference. So far, it's been completely reliable in my testing, but I don't know what MS might do later to screw it up for me and so far, I'm at a loss to find another way to speed this thing up. The way it is now, it's just waaaayyy too slow. Doing what I did took it down to sub 1 second. Well, I'm going to keep rummaging around for an answer, but in the meantime, I may have to treat this as a temporary fix.

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>I explained it in another message (to Mike Yearwood) that I'm trying to find a way around an SQL call taking too long, so I need to see deleted records in the returned cursor with their flags still set in order to speed things up.
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>>I can speed things up from anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds down to sub 1 second if I can use this trick. But if this behaviour is likely to change in order to standardise along ANSI lines, then I need to find another way to do it, and nothing else I've tried has really worked well so far.