>>Hi,
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>>What is the CPU speed and memory of the hardware you running this on.
>>Also if you are running on a network what are its details, speed etc.
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>>I am running similar queries on our next software version at present, the DBF has over 10M records and it extracts 2K records in 0.04 secs, it runs a bit slower accross the network, but not enough to worry about.
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>>The hardware is a 3.0Ghz P4 with 512MB Ram & 40GB free disk space.
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>>Are you running a virus checker.
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>This a AMD atholon 2100+ with 128mb ram, AVg free virus edition and no network

Get more RAM, you are close to the lower limit.