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select FirstName, LastName, Address, City, State, Zip
>>     from Customers where state= 'NY' and city like '%ISLAND%'  AND ADDRESS LIKE '%BLVD%'

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>>Yeah, that's optimizer-friendly. But how are you going to generate it in your SP?! That looks more like SPT to me.
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>Is LIKE %Something% optimizable??? I thought only LIKE 'Something%' optimizable.

Yes, through an index scan.. and index scan is something VFP does not have. It scans the index file for anything that matches the LIKE expression. It is more effective than a table scan, but less effective than an index seek.