>thanks sergey. i understand a bit more now about what you and mike are saying. i didn't understand at first (you can see my last post to mike as proof of that) :-)
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>"nofilter" means the data is being taken from the server to the client. without nofilter, the data is not coming from the server to the client - it is still on the server but filtered.
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>Is that what you're saying?
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>if so, i now understand s why you wanted to compare "apples to apples" so to speak by using "nofilter" on both.
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>this maybe a stupid question, but can i keep everything on the server and only view and make changes from a client, or is it everytime i need to make changes to a table i will run into the same network bottleneck?

Hi Paul,

All the processing in VFP is always done on workstation regardless where data is located. W/o NOFILTER VFP may do (if it can) something like

*** select lname from table1 into cursor cursor1
SELECT 0
USE table1 AGAIN ALIAS cursor1
SET FIELDS TO lname