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>That said, I do seem to recall that in at least one version of FoxPro, having SET EXACT and SET ANSI set differently could slow things down. But I don't think that's still true.

Hi Tamar,

I know one scenario were it still the case. When SET EXACT and SET ANSI set differently, VFP cannot create a filtered cursor. As result a query will bwe slower on big resultsets, if it was creating a filtered cursor witrh the same SET EXACT and SET ANSI settings.