And incorporating half million records in a table also is a good test for INSERT operations.



>Hi Rick,
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>>Seems to me this has a lot less to do with database performance than data parsing...
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>about 80% of the time is used up to make the records in Table2 unique. The parsing is only required because the CSV format they are using is different from VFP's default.
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>So IMHO it's at least some kind of database performance test. Not what one would expect but anyway. ;-)
>
>Markus