>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm using VFP8 SP1. I have the following tables: Styles with IDX Styles with index on Style field, Orders with PON field and IDX on it and Or_Items with Style and PON field with indexes on Style and PON + Style (IDX).
>
>My task is to find styles with 0 or negative in stock, where in_stock is a field in Styles table, but we may have special kind of Orders where PON = "HOUSE", which means these styles are going to be brought in.
>
>Here is my current code with various attempts to speed the process, but all unsuccessful so far:
>
>[One select statement takes ~230 sec., 4 select statements with index creation take 145 sec., which is still too slow].
>
>

>lSelectWay = AskNo("Do you want to use SQL-Select solution?") &&.T. && Set to true if you prefer select solution
>
>IF m.lSelectWay
>	ltStartTime = DATETIME()
>	LOCAL lcWhere, lcOldANSI
>	lcOldANSI = SET("Ansi")
>	SET ANSI OFF
>
>	lcWhere = [Styles.Style NOT IN ("F","S","X","D","M", "CD", "PK") ] + ;
>		[and NOT Styles.Style LIKE "%.%"] && [Styles.In_Stock <=1 ]
>
>	DO CASE
>	CASE m.cact = "A" && Active
>		lcWhere = m.lcWhere + [ and Styles.DisContinu = "A"]
>
>	CASE m.cact = "I" && Inactive
>		lcWhere = m.lcWhere + [ and Styles.DisContinu = "I"]
>
>	CASE m.cact = "B" && Both
>		lcWhere = m.lcWhere + [ and Styles.DisContinu IN ("A","I")]
>	ENDCASE
>
>	USE styles INDEX styles IN 0 && Style
>	USE or_items INDEX or_style, or_items IN 0 && Style, PON + Style
>	USE orders INDEX orders IN 0 && PON
>
>	LOCAL loThermo, lcClass
>	lcClass = "cusSQLThermo"
>	loThermo = CREATEOBJECT(m.lcClass) && we need visual indication for long select
>	
>	SELECT styles.STYLE as Style, styles.RESERVED AS nReserved, styles.in_stock AS nInStock ;
>	FROM Styles WHERE &lcWhere AND Reserved >= In_Stock INTO CURSOR curStyles readwrite
>*	INDEX ON Style TAG cStyle
>*!*		
>*!*		SELECT PON, Style as cStyle, qty, shiped, can_qty FROM Or_Items ;
>*!*		WHERE Style in (select cStyle FROM curStyles) INTO CURSOR curOr_Items readwrite
>*!*		INDEX ON PON TAG PON
>*!*		INDEX ON cStyle TAG cStyle
>*!*		
>*!*		SELECT PON, Acc, Approved, App_Date FROM Orders ;
>*!*		WHERE PON in (select PON FROM curOr_Items) ;
>*!*		INTO CURSOR curOrders readwrite
>*!*		INDEX ON PON TAG PON
>*!*		
>*!*		SELECT curStyles.cStyle, curStyles.nReserved, curStyles.nInStock, ;
>*!*		SUM(IIF(curOrders.acc = "HOUSE" AND (NOT curOrders.Approved == "" OR NOT curOrders.app_date = {}), ;
>*!*			curOr_items.qty - curor_items.shiped - curor_items.can_qty, 000000000)) AS nHouseOrder ;
>*!*		FROM curStyles INNER JOIN curOr_Items ON curStyles.cStyle = curOr_Items.cStyle ;
>*!*		INNER JOIN curOrders ON curOr_Items.PON = curOrders.PON ;
>*!*		GROUP BY 1,2,3 HAVING (nHouseOrder + nInStock) - nReserved <=0 ;
>*!*			INTO CURSOR dummy READWRITE
>*!*		** Close unused cursors
>*!*		USE IN curOr_Items
>*!*		USE IN curStyles
>*!*		USE IN curOrders		
>*!*		
>	SELECT or_Items.Style, sum(or_items.qty-or_items.shiped-or_items.can_qty) as nHouseOrder ;
>	FROM Or_Items WHERE Or_Items.Style IN (select Style FROM curStyles) ;
>	AND Or_Items.PON + Or_Items.Style IN ;
>	(select PON FROM Orders WHERE orders.acc = "HOUSE" AND (NOT approved == "" OR NOT app_date = {})) ;
>	GROUP BY 1 INTO CURSOR curOr_Items
>	
>	SELECT curStyles.Style FROM curStyles LEFT JOIN curOr_Items ON ;
>	curStyles.Style = curOr_Items.Style ;
>	WHERE (nReserved - nStock) >= NVL(nHouseOrder,0) INTO CURSOR Dummy ;
>	ORDER BY 1
>	
>*!*		SELECT or_items.Style, SUM(IIF(orders.acc = "HOUSE" AND (NOT approved == "" OR NOT app_date = {}), ;
>*!*			or_items.qty-or_items.shiped-or_items.can_qty, 000000000)) AS nHouseOrder ;
>*!*			FROM orders INNER JOIN Or_Items ON Orders.PON = Or_Items.PON ;
>*!*			WHERE Style in (select Style FROM curStyles) ;
>*!*			GROUP BY 1 INTO CURSOR curTemp READWRITE
>*!*			
>*!*		INDEX ON Style TAG cStyle
>*!*		
>*!*		SELECT curStyles.Style FROM curStyles ;
>*!*		INNER JOIN curTemp ON curStyles.Style = curTemp.Style ;
>*!*		WHERE (nHouseOrder + nInStock) - nReserved <=0 INTO CURSOR Dummy
>	RELEASE loThermo
>	USE IN curStyles
>	USE IN curOr_Items
>	SELECT dummy
>

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