Add NOFILTER and time will be the same in both cases. W/o NOFILTER VFP may create filtered cursor by applying SET FILTER/SET FIELDS to the source table opened similar to USE...AGAIN.

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>quick question here - i'm using the cursor result of a query as the rowsource for a combobox. when is do:
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>select lname, fname from table into cursor cursor1
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>it is 10x (0.4 seconds vs 4 seconds) faster than:
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>select alltrim(lname) + " " + alltrim(fname) from table into cursor cursor1
>or even:
>select alltrim(lname) from table into cursor cursor1
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>the rowsource for the combobox is cursor1
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>i thought it had to do with optimization but there is no "where" clause in the select statement so rushmore shouldn't enter into it. even so, i indexed the table on "alltrim(lname)" and there was no change.
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>if i'm concatenating (ie lname + fname), i need to do alltrim or the item will not fit in the combobox.
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>am i doing anything wrong here? would it be better to select lname, fname into the cursor and then somehow take away the spaces when the cursor is made the rowsource? if so, how would i do that?
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>thanks!
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>paul