Sergey, I really do not know! I am bewildered as to why the query when cut and pasted from the query analyzer into VFP would run so slow.

Glenn

>>I have an application written in VFP which executes a query against a SQL 2000 table with approx. 3,500,000 records. this table has an index on a computed field called Squeezedesc (replace(description,' ','') ).
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>>When I run this query in SQL Query Analyser it is done in negligible time whereas when executed from the app it takes 38 seconds???? Here is my query:
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>>Select inv.uid as idinv,inv.isbn13 as sku1 From inv Where SqueezeDesc like 'thehook%'
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>>Is this an expected behavior?
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>Why would it be expected behavior?