>There are no tag on DELETED(). I see that as soon as I put the tag on it, it went fast. This table comes from a remote location. So, I will have to ask them to add a tag there. But, usually, I don't have a need anymore to use this tag. I have found that since a few versions of VFP, that this doesn't change anything as far as optimization goes.
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If you didn't need the deleted() tag before you might check that creating it for that particular query doesn't slow down other queries. No really *good* choices here, but still you can try to find the lesser evil.

regards

thomas